Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 13

Then she gave him a cloak, and said, ‘As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.’

Who acts: woman, you, princesses · What happens: give, say, put, become, be, follow · To what, where: cloak, king, that, princesses · 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 (woman, you, princesses), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloak	det
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 soon	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 soon	punct
12	As	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 said	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 put	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 soon	advcl
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 put	obj
18	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 become	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 become	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux
21	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 put	advcl
22	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 become	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 able	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 able	aux
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 able	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gave	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 follow	mark
31	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 princesses	det
33	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 follow	obj
34	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	36 go	advmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
36	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 follow	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	woman	a cloak	king	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cloak=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here				soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	put	present	you	that				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent that=Goal
4	become	future	you				invisible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is	future	you			then	able property	tree rules
6	follow	to-infinitive	you not said here	the princesses				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
7	go	present	princesses = princess				wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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