Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 29
After many, many years there came a king’s son into that land: and an old man told him the story of the thicket of thorns; and how a beautiful palace stood behind it, and how a wonderful princess, called Briar Rose, lay in it asleep, with all her court.
Who acts: son, old man, beautiful palace, wonderful princess · What happens: come, tell, stand, call, lie · To what, where: land, story, palace, thicket, wonderful princess · 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 (son, old man, beautiful palace, wonderful princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 many | punct |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 came | expl |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | nsubj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 thicket | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thicket | det |
| 26 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 story | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 thorns | case |
| 28 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thicket | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 stood | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stood | cc |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 stood | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 palace | det |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 palace | amod |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stood | nsubj |
| 35 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 36 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 stood | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 lay | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 lay | cc |
| 40 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 lay | advmod |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 princess | det |
| 42 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 princess | amod |
| 43 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 lay | nsubj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 called | punct |
| 45 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 princess | acl |
| 46 | Briar | Briar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 called | xcomp |
| 47 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Briar | flat |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 lay | punct |
| 49 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stood | advcl |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 it | case |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 lay | obl |
| 52 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 lay | xcomp |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 court | punct |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 57 court | case |
| 55 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 57 court | det:predet |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 court | nmod:poss |
| 57 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stood | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a king's son | that land; there | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | a old man | the story of the thicket of thorns | palace | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 3 | stand | past | a beautiful palace | thicket | with princess's court | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind it=Location | |||
| 4 | call | participle | a wonderful princess not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lie | past | a wonderful princess | thicket | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=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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