Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 120
When the Queen heard this she was very glad, for now she knew the name; and soon after came the Dwarf, and asked, "Now, my lady Queen, what is my name?"
Who acts: Queen, Dwarf, lady · What happens: hear, be, know, come, ask · To what, where: this, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Dwarf, lady), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 glad | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glad | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 glad | advmod |
| 9 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 knew | mark |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 knew | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glad | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 came | advmod |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dwarf | det |
| 23 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 asked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 asked | cc |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lady | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 lady | punct |
| 29 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 lady | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lady | punct |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 lady | nmod:poss |
| 32 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asked | ccomp |
| 33 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 lady | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 name | punct |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 name | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 name | cop |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 name | nmod:poss |
| 38 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lady | appos |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 name | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Queen | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Queen | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Queen | the name | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come | past | the Dwarf | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | my lady | my name | 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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