Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 108

This was in part due to Edgar Taylor, who made the first English translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories ‘with the amusement of some young friends principally in view.’

Who acts: This, part · What happens: be, make, select, amuse · To what, where: part, first English translation, 1823, fifty stories, view, young friends

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 (This, part), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 part	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 part	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 part	case
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	7 Edgar	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 due	fixed
7	Edgar	Edgar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod
8	Taylor	Taylor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Edgar	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 part	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 translation	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 translation	amod
14	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 translation	compound
15	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 1823	case
17	1823	1823	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 made	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 selecting	punct
19	selecting	select	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 made	advcl
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 fifty	advmod
21	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 stories	nummod
22	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 selecting	obj
23	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	26 amusement	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 amusement	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 amusement	det
26	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 selecting	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 friends	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 friends	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 friends	amod
30	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 amusement	nmod
31	principally	principally	ADV	_	33 view	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 view	case
33	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 selecting	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 part	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	This		part	due Edgar	tree rules
2	make	past	part	the first English translation	1823		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent translation=Product
3	select	gerund	part not said here	fifty stories	view	with the amusement of some young friends	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
4	amuse			some young friends			nom amusement «feeling 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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