Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 72
The King dared not speak; but he watched the following night, and this time she said--
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: not dare, not speak, watch, follow, say · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 dared | advmod |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 watched | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 watched | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 watched | nsubj |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dared | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 night | amod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 watched | conj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past | the King | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | infinitive | the King not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | past | King | night | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | time | 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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