Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 27
But there went a report through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king’s daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings’ sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
Who acts: Briar, sons · What happens: go, call, come, try, break · To what, where: report, land, daughter, thicket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Briar, sons), 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 | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 went | expl |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 report | det |
| 5 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 land | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sleeping | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sleeping | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sleeping | amod |
| 13 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 land | nmod |
| 14 | Briar | Briar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sleeping | appos |
| 15 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Briar | flat |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 called | mark |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 called | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 king | case |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | aux:pass |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Briar | acl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 came | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 came | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 that | punct |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 came | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 time | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 time | punct |
| 35 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 kings | amod |
| 36 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sons | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 36 kings | case |
| 38 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 came | nsubj |
| 39 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 tried | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 tried | cc |
| 42 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 came | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 break | mark |
| 44 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 tried | xcomp |
| 45 | through | through | ADP | _ | 47 thicket | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 thicket | det |
| 47 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 break | obl |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 palace | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 palace | det |
| 50 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 break | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a report | all land of the beautiful sleeping; there | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location report=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Briar not said here | the king's daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | several kings's sons | time | so that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | try | past | several kings's sons not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | break not said to happen | to-infinitive | several kings's sons not said here | the thicket | into the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thicket=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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