Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 30
But the eldest said, ‘It is only our princes, who are shouting for joy at our approach.’
Who acts: eldest, noise, princes, our · What happens: say, be, shout, approach · To what, where: princes, approach · 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 (eldest, noise, princes, our), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eldest | det |
| 3 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 princes | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 princes | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 princes | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 princes | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 princes | advmod |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 princes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shouting | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shouting | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 shouting | aux |
| 15 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 princes | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 joy | case |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shouting | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 approach | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 approach | nmod:poss |
| 20 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shouting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | the eldest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | noise | our princes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | present · progressive | our princes | our approach | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | |||
| 4 | approach | our | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=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: «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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