Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 157
Thus they danced till a late hour of the night, and then she wanted to go home; and the king's son said, "I shall go and take care of you to your home," for he wanted to see where the beautiful maid lived.
Who acts: sons, lady, son, King, beautiful maid · What happens: dance, want, go, say, take, see · To what, where: care, home · 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 (sons, lady, son, King), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 danced | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hour | amod |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 danced | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hour | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wanted | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 wanted | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wanted | xcomp |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 go | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | aux |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 take | cc |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | conj |
| 33 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 take | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 home | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 home | nmod:poss |
| 38 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wanted | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 wanted | punct |
| 41 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 wanted | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 wanted | nsubj |
| 43 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 see | mark |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 wanted | xcomp |
| 46 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 50 lived | advmod |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 maid | det |
| 48 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 maid | amod |
| 49 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 lived | nsubj |
| 50 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 see | advcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | sons = son | hour | thus property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | past | lady | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | lady not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the king's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | shall | the king's son = son | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | the king's son = son not said here | care | your home | of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent care=Theme of you=Initial_Location to home=Destination | ||
| 7 | want | past | King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | live | past | the beautiful maid | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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