Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 17
It happened that, on the very day she was fifteen years old, the king and queen were not at home, and she was left alone in the palace.
Who acts: It, princess, king · What happens: happen, be, not be, leave · To what, where: home, princess, palace
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 (It, princess, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 old | mark |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 day | advmod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 old | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 old | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 11 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 old | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 happened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 home | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 queen | cc |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 king | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 home | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 home | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 old | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 left | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 left | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | aux:pass |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 happened | conj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 left | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | princess | day; year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is | past | the king and queen | home | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | princess | the palace | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in palace=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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