Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 9
So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on her feet, and a long white wand in her hand: and after the feast was over they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little princess.
Who acts: twelve fairies, fairies · What happens: come, gather, give, gift · To what, where: each, ring, best gifts, little princess
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 (twelve fairies, fairies), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fairies | nummod |
| 3 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 each | punct |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cap | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cap | det |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cap | amod |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cap | amod |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 each | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cap | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shoes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shoes | cc |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shoes | amod |
| 18 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 heels | case |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heels | amod |
| 21 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shoes | nmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heels | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wand | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wand | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 wand | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wand | amod |
| 29 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wand | amod |
| 30 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hand | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wand | nmod |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 gathered | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gathered | cc |
| 36 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 40 over | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 feast | det |
| 38 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 over | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 over | cop |
| 40 | over | over | ADP | _ | 42 gathered | advmod |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 gathered | nsubj |
| 42 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 43 | round | round | ADV | _ | 42 gathered | advmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 ring | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 ring | det |
| 46 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 gathered | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 gave | cc |
| 48 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 gathered | conj |
| 49 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 gifts | det:predet |
| 50 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 51 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 52 gifts | amod |
| 52 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 gave | obj |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 princess | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 princess | det |
| 55 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 princess | amod |
| 56 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gave | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | twelve fairies | each | red shoes with high heels on queen's feet obl; a long white wand in queen's hand obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | gather | past | fairies = fairy | a ring | round property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | fairies = fairy not said here | fairies's best gifts | the little princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to princess=Recipient | |||
| 4 | gift | fairies = fairy | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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