Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 67
They embraced and kissed each other, and the Queen, going to the King, who was thunderstruck, began to say, "Now may I speak, my dear husband, and prove to you that I am innocent and falsely accused;" and then she told him how the wicked woman had stolen away and hidden her three children.
Who acts: Swans, Queen · What happens: embrace, kiss, go, thunderstruck, begin, say · To what, where: each, King, you, wicked woman, woman · 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 (Swans, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 embraced | nsubj |
| 2 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kissed | cc |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 embraced | conj |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 kissed | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 began | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Queen | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thunderstruck | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 thunderstruck | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thunderstruck | aux:pass |
| 19 | thunderstruck | thunderstruck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 King | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Queen | punct |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 embraced | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 say | mark |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 speak | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 speak | punct |
| 26 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 speak | advmod |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 speak | aux |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 speak | nsubj |
| 29 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 say | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 husband | punct |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 husband | nmod:poss |
| 32 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 husband | amod |
| 33 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 speak | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 prove | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 prove | cc |
| 36 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 say | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 prove | obl |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 innocent | mark |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 innocent | nsubj |
| 41 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 innocent | cop |
| 42 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 prove | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 accused | cc |
| 44 | falsely | falsely | ADV | _ | 45 accused | advmod |
| 45 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 innocent | conj |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 embraced | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 embraced | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 told | cc |
| 49 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 told | advmod |
| 50 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 told | nsubj |
| 51 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 embraced | conj |
| 52 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 told | iobj |
| 53 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 58 stolen | advmod |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 woman | det |
| 55 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 woman | amod |
| 56 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 57 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 stolen | aux |
| 58 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 told | ccomp |
| 59 | away | away | ADV | _ | 58 stolen | advmod |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 hidden | cc |
| 61 | hidden | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 stolen | conj |
| 62 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 hidden | obj |
| 63 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 64 children | nummod |
| 64 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 hidden | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | Swans = swan | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Swans = swan not said here | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the Queen not said here | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | thunderstruck | past · passive | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | the Queen | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | speak speech: other in a quote | may | the Queen = queen | now | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | prove in a quote | infinitive | the Queen not said here | you | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to you=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | is in a quote | present | the Queen = queen | innocent property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | accuse in a quote | participle | the Queen = queen not said here | falsely property | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 11 | tell speech: assert | past | Queen | King | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 12 | steal away | past · perfect · passive | the wicked woman | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 13 | hide | past | woman | tree rules |
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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