Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 1
A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies.
Who acts: king · What happens: reign, be · To what, where: country
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reigned | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 queen | cc |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 reigned | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 once | obl |
| 9 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reigned | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 off | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 reigned | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 were | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 were | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 were | expl |
| 20 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reigned | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fairies | case |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 fairies | det |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fairies | compound |
| 24 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 were | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | participle | a king and queen | a country | off, once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | there | in that days fairies | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fairy=Location |
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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