Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 12
Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and scolded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge.
Who acts: queen · What happens: not ask, be, scold, set, work, take · To what, where: queen, feast, king, revenge
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 (queen), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 asked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 asked | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 asked | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | aux:pass |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 feast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 angry | advmod |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feast | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scolded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scolded | cc |
| 18 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scolded | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 queen | cc |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 king | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 scolded | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 scolded | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 work | mark |
| 29 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 set | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 take | mark |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 work | ccomp |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 33 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | past · perfect · passive | queen | now | to the feast | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | queen | the feast not said here | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | scold | past | the king and queen | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | queen's revenge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme | |||||
| 7 | revenge | queen | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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