Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 46
As soon as she had looked at the last, and thanked the merchant, she wished to depart.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: look, thank, wish, depart · To what, where: merchant
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 (Princess), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 looked | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 looked | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | aux |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 last | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thanked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thanked | cc |
| 12 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thanked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wished | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thanked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 depart | mark |
| 19 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wished | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect | Princess | at the last; soon property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the merchant | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | Princess | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | depart not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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