Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 36
Then she exclaimed, "Oh, what beautiful golden things!" and, setting the pails down, she looked at the cups one after another, and said, "The King's daughter must see these; she is so pleased with anything made of gold that she will buy all these."
Who acts: maid, daughter · What happens: exclaim, set down, look, say, see, be · To what, where: pails, these · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, daughter), 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 | 3 exclaimed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 6 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 what | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Oh | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 exclaimed | obl |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 what | nsubj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 things | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 setting | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 setting | punct |
| 16 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 exclaimed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pails | det |
| 18 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 setting | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 setting | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exclaimed | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 cups | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cups | det |
| 25 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 looked | obl |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 cups | flat |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 another | case |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exclaimed | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 34 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 King | case |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 see | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 see | aux |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 said | ccomp |
| 40 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 see | obj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 pleased | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 pleased | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 pleased | cop |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 pleased | advmod |
| 45 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 anything | case |
| 47 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 pleased | obl |
| 48 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 anything | acl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 gold | case |
| 50 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 made | obl |
| 51 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 54 buy | mark |
| 52 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 buy | nsubj |
| 53 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 buy | aux |
| 54 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 pleased | advcl |
| 55 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 56 these | det:predet |
| 56 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 54 buy | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | maid | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | set down | gerund | maid not said here | the pails | down property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pail=Result | |||
| 3 | look | past | maid | at the cups | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cup=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | maid not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | must | the King's daughter | these | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | maid | with anything; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make in a quote | participle | of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 8 | buy in a quote | future | maid | these | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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