Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 107

Although their intention was to preserve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with scholarly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.

Who acts: intention, Grimm · What happens: be, publish, come, intend, possess · To what, where: collection, possession, young readers

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intention, Grimm), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	6 preserve	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 intention	nmod:poss
3	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preserve	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 preserve	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 preserve	mark
6	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 came	advcl
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 material	amod
8	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preserve	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 part	case
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preserve	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 history	case
12	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 history	amod
13	cultural	cultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 history	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 literary	cc
15	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cultural	conj
16	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 published	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 published	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 collection	nmod:poss
20	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 published	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 published	aux:pass
22	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 published	advmod
23	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 preserve	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 notes	case
25	scholarly	scholarly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 notes	amod
26	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 published	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 illustration	cc
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 illustration	det
29	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 notes	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tales	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tales	det
32	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 notes	conj
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 tales	advmod
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 possession	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 possession	det
37	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 readers	case
39	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 readers	amod
40	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 possession	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Grimm's intention			as part of German cultural history; preserve property	tree rules
2	publish	past · passive		Grimm's collection		with scholarly notes and no illustration and the tales; first property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	come	past			the possession of young readers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into possession=Initial_Location
4	intend		Grimm				nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	possess			young readers			nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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