Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 154
But there was no princess in the world so beautiful; and if there had been, still there was not one to be found who had golden hair.
What happens: be, not be, find, have · To what, where: one, golden hair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | nmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 one | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 been | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 been | expl |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 been | aux |
| 16 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 was | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 been | punct |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 was | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 one | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | ccomp |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hair | amod |
| 29 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive · passive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | golden hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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