Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 26
Then the young prince said, "All this shall not frighten me; I will go and see Briar Rose."
Who acts: young prince, this · What happens: say, not frighten, go, see · To what, where: young prince, Briar Rose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, this), 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 | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frighten | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 frighten | punct |
| 8 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 this | det:predet |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 frighten | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 frighten | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 frighten | advmod |
| 12 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 frighten | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 frighten | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 20 | Briar | Briar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Rose | compound |
| 21 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 frighten | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 frighten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the young prince | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not frighten in a quote | shall | this | the young prince = prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | the young prince = prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | the young prince = prince not said here | Briar Rose | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus |
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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