Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 61
Then the King pitied her, and saw how beautiful she was, and said, "Will you go with me?" "
Who acts: King, mother, you · What happens: pity, see, be, say, go · To what, where: mother · 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 (King, mother, you), 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 pitied | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pitied | nsubj |
| 4 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pitied | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitied | conj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitied | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | past | the King | mother | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | past | the King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | mother | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | future | you | with the King = king | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
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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