Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 162
The king's son, who was waiting for her, took her by the hand and danced with her; and, when any one asked her to dance, he said as before, "This lady is dancing with me."
Who acts: son, one, Father, lady · What happens: wait, take, dance, ask, say · To what, where: CINDERELLA · 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, one, Father, 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 | 12 took | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 waiting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | aux |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waiting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 said | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 asked | advmod |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 asked | nsubj |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 said | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 asked | iobj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 dance | mark |
| 30 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 asked | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 asked | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 said | nsubj |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 before | case |
| 35 | before | before | ADV | _ | 33 said | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dancing | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 dancing | punct |
| 38 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 lady | det |
| 39 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dancing | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 dancing | aux |
| 41 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 said | ccomp |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 dancing | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 dancing | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | the king's son | for CINDERELLA | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the king's son | CINDERELLA | 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 CINDERELLA | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | any one | CINDERELLA | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | dance not said to happen | to-infinitive | any one not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Father | before property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | dance in a quote | present · progressive | this lady | with Father | 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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