Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 21
The Queen then went home quite contented, and thought she was free of her step-children; but the little girl had not met her with the brothers, and the Queen did not know of her.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: go, content, think, be, not meet, not know · To what, where: little girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 contented | advmod |
| 7 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 free | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 free | cop |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 16 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 children | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 step | punct |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 free | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 met | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 met | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 met | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 met | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 met | advmod |
| 26 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 thought | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 met | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 brothers | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 brothers | det |
| 30 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 met | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 know | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 know | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Queen | det |
| 34 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 know | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 know | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 know | advmod |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 met | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 know | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Queen | then | home property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | content | participle | the Queen not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | Queen | of Queen's step children; free property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not meet | past · perfect · passive | the little girl | with the brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not know | past · do-support | the Queen | of girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of she=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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