Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 26
A little farther on he came to a room wherein stood a beautiful maiden, who was so pleased to see him that she kissed him and said he had freed her, and should have her whole kingdom, and if he came in another year their wedding should be celebrated.
Who acts: Prince, road, year, fingers · What happens: come, stand, be, see, kiss, say · To what, where: room, Prince, whole kingdom, wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, road, year, fingers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farther | obl |
| 3 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 came | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 stood | advmod |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maiden | amod |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pleased | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pleased | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 pleased | advmod |
| 19 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maiden | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 pleased | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 kissed | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kissed | nsubj |
| 25 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kissed | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kissed | conj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 freed | aux |
| 31 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 said | ccomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 freed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 have | cc |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 38 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 kingdom | amod |
| 39 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 came | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 came | cc |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 came | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 came | nsubj |
| 44 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 year | case |
| 46 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 year | det |
| 47 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 came | obl |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 49 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 celebrated | aux |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 52 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 year | acl:relcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Prince | a room | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Prince not said here | maiden, wherein property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | kiss | past | road | Prince | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | road not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | free | past · perfect · passive | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | have | should | Prince not said here | road's whole kingdom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | ||||
| 9 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | Prince | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | celebrate | should · passive | another year not said here | fingers's wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 11 | wed | fingers = finger | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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