Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 16
But all the gifts of the first eleven fairies were in the meantime fulfilled; for the princess was so beautiful, and well behaved, and good, and wise, that everyone who knew her loved her.
Who acts: gifts, everyone · What happens: be, fulfil, behave, know, love, gift · To what, where: meantime, princess, first eleven fairies
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 (gifts, everyone), 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 | _ | 13 meantime | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 gifts | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gifts | det |
| 4 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 meantime | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fairies | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fairies | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 fairies | amod |
| 8 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 fairies | nummod |
| 9 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gifts | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 meantime | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 meantime | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meantime | det |
| 13 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 meantime | acl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beautiful | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fulfilled | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 behaved | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 behaved | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 behaved | advmod |
| 25 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 beautiful | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 good | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 good | cc |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 behaved | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wise | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wise | cc |
| 31 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 good | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 loved | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 loved | mark |
| 34 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 38 loved | nsubj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 knew | nsubj |
| 36 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 knew | obj |
| 38 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 behaved | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 loved | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 meantime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all gifts of the first eleven fairies | the meantime | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fulfil | participle | the meantime not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | for the princess; beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | behave | participle | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know | past | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | love | past | everyone | princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | gift | the first eleven fairies | nom gift «possession 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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