Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 30
Soon after, the false bride said to the prince, "Dear husband, pray do me one piece of kindness." "
Who acts: false bride · What happens: say, pray, do · To what, where: prince, one piece, false bride · 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 (false bride), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 1 Soon | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bride | det |
| 5 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bride | amod |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 husband | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 husband | punct |
| 13 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 husband | amod |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prince | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pray | punct |
| 16 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pray | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | iobj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 piece | nummod |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kindness | case |
| 22 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 pray | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pray | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the false bride | the prince and Dear husband | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | one piece of kindness | the false bride = bride | 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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