Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 71
As soon as he arrived at the door it was opened, and the Princess received him with joy, saving he was her deliverer and the lord of her dominions.
Who acts: Prince, door, Princess · What happens: arrive, open, receive, save, be · To what, where: door, castle, Prince, deliverer
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, door, 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 | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | aux:pass |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 door | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 received | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 received | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 received | nsubj |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 received | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 received | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saving | punct |
| 21 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 received | advcl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deliverer | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 deliverer | cop |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 25 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saving | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lord | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lord | det |
| 28 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deliverer | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 dominions | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lord | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Prince | the door | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | past · passive | the door not said here | castle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | the Princess | Prince | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | save | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Prince | Princess's deliverer and the lord of Princess's dominions | tree rules |
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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