Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 84

The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side, and the true one on the other; but nobody knew her, for she was quite dazzling to their eyes, and was not at all like the little goose-girl, now that she had on her brilliant dress.

Who acts: bridegroom, nobody, girl · What happens: sit, know, dazzle, have · To what, where: top, bridegroom, brilliant dress

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 (bridegroom, nobody, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bridegroom	det
2	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 princess	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 princess	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
10	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 princess	amod
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 side	nummod
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 princess	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 one	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 princess	appos
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 knew	cc
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dazzling	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 dazzling	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dazzling	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dazzling	aux
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 dazzling	advmod
33	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 knew	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 eyes	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eyes	nmod:poss
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dazzling	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 all	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 all	cc
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 all	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 all	advmod
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sat	conj
43	like	like	ADP	_	48 girl	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 girl	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 girl	amod
46	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 girl	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 goose	punct
48	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 all	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 had	punct
50	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 had	advmod
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 had	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 had	nsubj
53	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
54	on	on	ADP	_	57 dress	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 dress	nmod:poss
56	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 dress	amod
57	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 had	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the bridegroom		the top			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location
2	know	past	nobody	bridegroom				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	dazzle	past · progressive	bridegroom				to tears's eyes	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	girl		girl's brilliant dress	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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