Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 10

She received the King as if she had expected him, and he saw at once that she was very beautiful, but yet she did not quite please him, for he could not look at her without a secret shuddering.

Who acts: woman, King · What happens: receive, expect, see, be, do, not look · To what, where: King, woman

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, King), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 received	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 expected	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 expected	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 expected	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 expected	aux
9	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 received	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 expected	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 received	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 saw	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 beautiful	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beautiful	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 beautiful	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 once	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 did	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 did	cc
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	26 did	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	nsubj
26	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 him	advmod
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 him	advmod
29	please	please	INTJ	_	30 him	discourse
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 look	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 look	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 look	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 look	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 look	advmod
36	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saw	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 look	obl
39	without	without	ADP	_	42 shuddering	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 shuddering	det
41	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 shuddering	amod
42	shuddering	shuddering	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 look	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	woman	the King			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
2	expect	past · perfect · passive		woman			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme he=Eventuality
3	see	past	King				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	woman			beautiful property	tree rules
5	do	past	woman	King	yet		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not look	could	King			at woman; without a secret shuddering	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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