Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 54
There he ordered rich clothing to be made for her, and, although her beauty shone as the sunbeams, not a word escaped her.
Who acts: King, rich clothing, beauty · What happens: order, make, shine, escape · To what, where: rich clothing, beauty, maiden
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 (King, rich clothing, beauty), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clothing | amod |
| 5 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 escaped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 escaped | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beauty | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 escaped | nsubj |
| 17 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 beauty | acl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 sunbeams | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sunbeams | det |
| 20 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shone | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 word | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 word | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sunbeams | appos |
| 25 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 escaped | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | King | rich clothing | there | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clothing=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | rich clothing not said here | for maiden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | shine | participle | maiden's beauty not said here | as the sunbeams | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | escape | past | maiden's beauty | maiden | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Initial_Location |
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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