Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 5

What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land.

Who acts: little fish, queen, king, he · What happens: foretell, come, pass, have, not cease, look · To what, where: little girl, great feast, child, land · 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 (little fish, queen, king, he), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 foretold	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 foretold	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 foretold	aux
6	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 came	conj
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 foretold	advmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pass	mark
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 came	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 queen	det
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 girl	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girl	amod
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beautiful	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 beautiful	advmod
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 beautiful	advmod
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 had	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 cease	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cease	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 cease	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 cease	advmod
28	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 beautiful	advcl
29	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 cease	xcomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looking	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 joy	case
33	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looking	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hold	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 hold	aux
39	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 said	ccomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 feast	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 feast	amod
42	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hold	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 make	cc
44	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 hold	conj
45	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 make	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 show	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 show	cc
48	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 hold	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 child	det
50	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 show	obj
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 land	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 land	det:predet
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 land	det
54	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 show	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	foretell	past · perfect	the little fish			soon property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	come	past					tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	the queen	a little girl			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
5	not cease	could	the king				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	look	gerund	the king not said here			on fish; for joy	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Location for joy=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	hold	would	he	a great feast			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
9	make	infinitive	he not said here			merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
10	show	infinitive	he not said here	the child	all land		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Topic to land=Recipient

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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