Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 75
At these words the King could hold back no longer, but, springing up, cried, "You can be no other than my dear wife!"
Who acts: King, You · What happens: hold back, spring up, cry, be · To what, where: words · 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hold | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hold | aux |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 hold | advmod |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 hold | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 springing | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 springing | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 springing | punct |
| 14 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hold | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 springing | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 springing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 other | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 other | punct |
| 20 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 other | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 other | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 other | cop |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hold | parataxis |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 wife | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wife | amod |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 other | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 hold | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold back | could | the King | this words | long property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | spring up | gerund | the King not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | participle | the King not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | can | You | than my dear wife; other property | 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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