Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 68
So in the evening he went into the nursery, and about midnight the Queen appeared, and said--
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: go, appear, say · To what, where: nursery · 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, Queen), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 nursery | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nursery | det |
| 9 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | cc |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 midnight | case |
| 13 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | King | the nursery | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into nursery=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | appear | past | the Queen | midnight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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