Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 46
But the King, looking at her with a kindly glance, held out to her his hand, saying, "Will you go with me to my castle, and be my dear wife?" "
Who acts: King, you · What happens: look, hold out, say, go, be · To what, where: King, Sister, castle, dear wife · 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, you), 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 | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 held | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 King | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 glance | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 glance | det |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 11 glance | advmod |
| 11 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 held | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saying | punct |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 held | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 23 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 saying | ccomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 go | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 castle | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 castle | nmod:poss |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wife | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 wife | cc |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 wife | cop |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 wife | nmod:poss |
| 35 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wife | amod |
| 36 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saying | ccomp |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 wife | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 wife | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | the King not said here | at Sister; with a glance | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold out | participle · passive | the King | Sister | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme hand=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | you | my castle | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | infinitive | my dear wife | 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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