Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 18

When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, ‘This fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!’

Who acts: twelve princesses, princesses, eldest, wiser thing · What happens: hear, laugh, say, do, lose · To what, where: this, fellow, life, way · 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 (twelve princesses, princesses, eldest, wiser thing), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princesses	det
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 princesses	nummod
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laughed	nsubj
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
9	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	8 laughed	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eldest	det
13	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 heard	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
17	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fellow	det
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	nsubj:pass
19	too	too	ADV	_	18 fellow	advmod
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thing	det
24	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	obj
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 lose	mark
27	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thing	acl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lose	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lose	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the twelve princesses	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	princesses = princess			heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	participle	the eldest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	might · perfect · passive		this fellow			tree rules
5	lose	infinitive	a wiser thing not said here	king's life	this way		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

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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