Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 12
But the princess was very humble and meek, so she said nothing to her maid's ill behavior, but got upon her horse again.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: nothing, ill behavior · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 humble | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 humble | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 humble | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 humble | advmod |
| 6 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 meek | cc |
| 8 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 humble | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 humble | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 said | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 behavior | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 maid | nmod:poss |
| 16 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 maid | case |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 behavior | amod |
| 19 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 horse | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 horse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obl |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 got | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 humble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | humble property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the princess not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | princess | nothing | princess's maid's ill behavior | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to behavior=Recipient | |||
| 4 | get | past | princess not said here | again | upon princess's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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