Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 170
Then her kind friend the bird brought a dress still finer than the former one, and slippers which were all of gold; and the king's son danced with her alone, and when any one else asked her to dance, he said, "This lady is my partner."
Who acts: kind friend, slippers, son, one, King, lady · What happens: bring, be, dance, ask, say · To what, where: dress, CINDERELLA, partner · 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 (kind friend, slippers, son, one), 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 | 7 brought | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dress | det |
| 9 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 finer | advmod |
| 11 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 dress | amod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finer | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gold | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gold | cc |
| 18 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gold | nsubj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 gold | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gold | cop |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 gold | det |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 danced | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 son | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 king | case |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 danced | nsubj |
| 30 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 danced | obl |
| 33 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 30 danced | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 said | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 said | cc |
| 36 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 asked | mark |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 one | det |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 asked | nsubj |
| 39 | else | else | ADV | _ | 38 one | advmod |
| 40 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 said | advcl |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 asked | iobj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 dance | mark |
| 43 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 asked | xcomp |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 asked | 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 | 30 danced | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 said | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 partner | punct |
| 49 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 lady | det |
| 50 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 partner | nsubj |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 partner | cop |
| 52 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 partner | nmod:poss |
| 53 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 said | ccomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 53 partner | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 partner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | CINDERELLA's kind friend | a dress | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | slippers | of all gold | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | the king's son | with CINDERELLA; alone property | 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 | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | this lady | my partner | tree rules |
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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