Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 45
She was frightened when she saw not her Fawn, but a man enter, who had a golden crown upon his head.
Who acts: Sister, man · What happens: frighten, not see, enter, have · To what, where: Sister, Fawn, golden crown
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 (Sister, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frightened | aux:pass |
| 3 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frightened | advcl |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 saw | advmod |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Fawn | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enter | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 enter | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enter | nsubj |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 frightened | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 enter | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crown | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 crown | amod |
| 20 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crown | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | Sister | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not see | past | Sister | Sister's Fawn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fawn=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | enter | infinitive | a man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | a golden crown | upon King's head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient |
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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