Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 156
The king's son soon came up to her, and took her by the hand and danced with her and no one else; and he never left her hand, but when any one else came to ask her to dance, he said, "This lady is dancing with me."
Who acts: son, King, one, lady · What happens: come up, take, dance, not leave, come, ask · To what, where: sister, hand · 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 (son, King, one, lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 danced | cc |
| 18 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 danced | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 one | cc |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 her | conj |
| 24 | else | else | ADV | _ | 23 one | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 left | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | nsubj |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 left | advmod |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 said | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 said | cc |
| 34 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 38 came | mark |
| 35 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 one | det |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 came | nsubj |
| 37 | else | else | ADV | _ | 36 one | advmod |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 said | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 ask | mark |
| 40 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 came | xcomp |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 ask | iobj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 dance | mark |
| 43 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 ask | xcomp |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 said | nsubj |
| 46 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 dancing | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 dancing | punct |
| 49 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 lady | det |
| 50 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 dancing | nsubj |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 dancing | aux |
| 52 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 said | advcl |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 me | case |
| 54 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 dancing | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the king's son | sister | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | the king's son not said here | sister | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 3 | dance | past | the king's son not said here | with sister | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not leave | past | King | sister's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | any one | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | any one not said here | sister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | dance not said to happen | to-infinitive | any one not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | dance in a quote | present · progressive | this lady | with King | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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