Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 185

So he brought the false bride back to her home, and said, "This is not the right bride; let the other sister try and put on the slipper."

Who acts: prince, This, other sister · What happens: bring, say, not be, let, try, put · To what, where: false bride, right bride, other sister, slipper · 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 (prince, This, other sister), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
5	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bride	amod
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 home	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bride	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 bride	punct
16	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 bride	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bride	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 bride	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bride	det
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bride	amod
21	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sister	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sister	amod
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obj
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 put	cc
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 try	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 slipper	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 slipper	det
32	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	prince	the false bride		to bride's home	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	present	This	the right bride			tree rules
4	let in a quote	infinitive		the other sister			tree rules
5	try in a quote	infinitive	the other sister not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	put in a quote	infinitive	the other sister not said here		the slipper		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination

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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