Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 165
Then the king's son waited till her father came home, and said to him, "The unknown lady has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung into the pear-tree."
Who acts: son, father, unknown lady · What happens: wait, come, say, slip away, think, spring · To what, where: Father, lady, pear tree · 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, father, unknown 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 waited | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waited | nsubj |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slipped | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 slipped | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 20 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slipped | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 slipped | aux |
| 23 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 slipped | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 think | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 think | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 think | nsubj |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | conj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 sprung | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 sprung | aux |
| 32 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 think | ccomp |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 35 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tree | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 pear | punct |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sprung | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waited | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the king's son | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | CINDERELLA's father | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king's son not said here | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | slip away in a quote | present · perfect | the unknown lady | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the king's son = son | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | spring in a quote | must · perfect · passive | lady | the pear tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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