Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 71

For if, after the wedding, a dance is held, while the young Queen dances she will suddenly turn pale, and fall down as if dead; and if some one does not raise her up, and take three drops of blood from her right breast and throw them away, she will die.

Who acts: young Queen, Queen, one · What happens: hold, dance, turn, fall down, not raise up, take · To what, where: dance, Queen, three drops, right breast, drops

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 (young Queen, Queen, 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	For	for	ADP	_	6 wedding	case
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wedding	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wedding	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 wedding	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wedding	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dance	det
9	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 held	aux:pass
11	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dances	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 dances	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Queen	amod
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 dances	nsubj
17	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 held	conj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 turn	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 turn	aux
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 turn	advmod
21	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dances	ccomp
22	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 turn	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fall	cc
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 turn	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 fall	compound:prt
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 dead	case
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 dead	mark
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fall	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 raise	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 raise	cc
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 raise	mark
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 raise	nsubj
35	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 raise	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 raise	advmod
37	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 held	advcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 raise	obj
39	up	up	ADP	_	37 raise	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 take	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 take	cc
42	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 raise	parataxis
43	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 drops	nummod
44	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 take	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 blood	case
46	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drops	nmod
47	from	from	ADP	_	50 breast	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 breast	nmod:poss
49	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 breast	amod
50	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 take	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 throw	cc
52	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 take	conj
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 throw	obj
54	away	away	ADV	_	52 throw	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 die	punct
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 die	nsubj
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 die	aux
58	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 raise	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present · passive		a dance		for the wedding	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	dance	present	the young Queen				tree rules
3	turn	future	Queen			pale, suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	fall down	infinitive	Queen not said here			as dead	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not raise up a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	some one	Queen			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	take	infinitive		three drops of blood	Queen's right breast		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme from breast=Initial_Location
7	throw away	infinitive		drops = drop		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	die	future	Queen				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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