Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 113

But the bride sat opposite to him dressed in black, neither opening her eyes nor speaking a word.

Who acts: bride · What happens: sit, dress, open, speak · To what, where: BEARSKIN, black, eyes, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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	_	4 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bride	det
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	obl
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sat	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 black	case
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dressed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 opening	punct
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 opening	cc:preconj
13	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 opening	obj
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 speaking	cc
17	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 opening	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 word	det
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speaking	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the bride		BEARSKIN		opposite property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dress	participle	the bride not said here			black		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	open	gerund	the bride not said here	bride's eyes				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
4	speak speech: other	gerund	the bride not said here	a word				tree rules

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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