Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 32

Then the Maiden knew them at once for her brothers, and gladly crept out from under the bed, and the brothers were not less glad to see their sister, but their joy was of short duration. "

Who acts: Maiden, brothers, joy, Swans · What happens: know, creep out, be, see, joy · To what, where: Swans, bed, sister

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 (Maiden, brothers, joy, Swans), 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	4 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Maiden	det
3	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 knew	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crept	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crept	cc
13	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	14 crept	advmod
14	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 crept	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 bed	case
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crept	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 glad	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 glad	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brothers	det
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 glad	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 glad	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 less	advmod
26	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 glad	advmod
27	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crept	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 glad	xcomp
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sister	nmod:poss
31	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 duration	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 duration	cc
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 joy	nmod:poss
35	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 duration	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 duration	cop
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 duration	case
38	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 duration	amod
39	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 duration	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 duration	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Maiden	Swans = swan		then	for maiden's brothers	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	creep out	past			the bed		gladly, out property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bed=Trajectory
3	is	past	the brothers				glad, less property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	Swans's sister				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus
5	is	past	Swans's joy				of short duration	tree rules
6	joy		Swans = swan					nom joy «feeling 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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