Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 150
And then Cinderella took the dishes to her mother, rejoicing to think that she should now go to the ball.
Who acts: Cinderella · What happens: take, rejoice, think, go · To what, where: dishes, mother, ball · 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 (Cinderella), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dishes | det |
| 6 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rejoicing | punct |
| 11 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rejoicing | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 go | advmod |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ball | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ball | det |
| 21 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Cinderella | the dishes | CINDERELLA's mother | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme to mother=Destination | ||
| 2 | rejoice | gerund | Cinderella not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Cinderella not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | should | CINDERELLA | the ball | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_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: «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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