Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 55
The King placed her by his side at table, and there her dignified mien and manners so won upon him, that he said, "This Maiden will I marry, and no other in the world;" and after some days he wedded her.
Who acts: King, dignified mien, Maiden · What happens: place, win, say, marry, wed · To what, where: maiden, other · 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 (King, dignified mien, Maiden), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 side | nmod:poss |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 won | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 won | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 her | expl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mien | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dignified | dignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mien | amod |
| 15 | mien | mien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 won | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 manners | cc |
| 17 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 mien | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 won | advmod |
| 19 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | parataxis |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 won | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 said | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 won | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 marry | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 marry | punct |
| 28 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 Maiden | det |
| 29 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 marry | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 marry | aux |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 marry | nsubj |
| 32 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 other | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 other | cc |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 other | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 marry | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 world | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 world | det |
| 39 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 other | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 marry | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 marry | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 wedded | cc |
| 43 | after | after | ADP | _ | 45 days | case |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 days | det |
| 45 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 wedded | obl |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 wedded | nsubj |
| 47 | wedded | wed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 won | conj |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 wedded | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the King | maiden | by King's side at table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by side=Destination | |||
| 2 | win | past | maiden's dignified mien and manners | upon King | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | future | this Maiden | no other | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wed | past | King | maiden | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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