Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 44
Upon this the door opened, and, stepping in, the King saw a maiden more beautiful than he had ever beheld before.
Who acts: King · What happens: open, step in, see, behold · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 door | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obl |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stepping | punct |
| 9 | stepping | step | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 stepping | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stepping | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 more | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 beheld | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beheld | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beheld | aux |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 beheld | advmod |
| 23 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 beautiful | advcl |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 beheld | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | this door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon door=Location | |||||
| 2 | step in | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | the King | beautiful property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | behold | past · perfect | King | ever | before property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: 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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