Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 11
‘I hardly know where I am going, or what I had better do,’ said the soldier; ‘but I think I should like very well to find out where it is that the princesses dance, and then in time I might be a king.’
Who acts: I, soldier · What happens: know, go, have, say, think, like · To what, where: better do, soldier, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, soldier), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 going | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 do | amod |
| 15 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 soldier | det |
| 20 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 but | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 think | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 think | nsubj |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 like | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 like | aux |
| 28 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 think | ccomp |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 well | advmod |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 like | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 find | mark |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 like | xcomp |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 find | compound:prt |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 dance | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 dance | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 dance | cop |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 dance | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 princesses | det |
| 39 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 dance | nsubj |
| 40 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 find | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 king | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 king | cc |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 king | advmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 time | case |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 king | obl |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 king | nsubj |
| 47 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 king | aux |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 king | cop |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 king | det |
| 50 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 think | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | I | better do | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | like | should | I | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | present | soldier | dance property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | is a | might | I | a king | then; time | 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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