Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 2
Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed.
Who acts: king, this · What happens: have, wear, eat, drink, ride out, marry · To what, where: plenty, king, children
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, this), 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 | 6 had | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 queen | cc |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | conj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plenty | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plenty | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plenty | cc |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 clothes | case |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clothes | amod |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 plenty | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 wear | mark |
| 17 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 plenty | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 plenty | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 plenty | cc |
| 20 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 plenty | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 things | acl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 drink | cc |
| 27 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 eat | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 coach | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 coach | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 coach | det |
| 31 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plenty | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 ride | mark |
| 33 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 coach | acl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 ride | compound:prt |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 day | case |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 day | det |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ride | obl |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 48 had | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 had | cc |
| 40 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 44 married | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 married | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 married | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 married | aux:pass |
| 44 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 had | advcl |
| 45 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 years | amod |
| 46 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 married | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 had | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 plenty | parataxis |
| 49 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 50 children | det |
| 50 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 had | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 grieved | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 grieved | cc |
| 53 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 54 grieved | nsubj |
| 54 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 had | conj |
| 55 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 grieved | obj |
| 56 | very | very | ADV | _ | 57 much | advmod |
| 57 | much | much | ADV | _ | 58 indeed | advmod |
| 58 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 54 grieved | advmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this king and queen | plenty of money | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 2 | wear | to-infinitive | this king and queen not said here | plenty of fine clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | this king and queen not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | this king and queen not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ride out | to-infinitive | this king and queen not said here | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | marry | past · perfect · passive | king | year | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | have | past | king | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 8 | grieve | past | this | king | indeed property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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