Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 32

And the soldier broke a branch from each; and every time there was a loud noise, which made the youngest sister tremble with fear; but the eldest still said, it was only the princes, who were crying for joy.

Who acts: soldier, loud noise, eldest, noise, princes · What happens: break, make, say, be, cry · To what, where: branch, youngest sister tremble, princes · 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 (soldier, loud noise, eldest, noise), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 broke	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 broke	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl:unmarked
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 noise	det
16	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 noise	amod
17	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 noise	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tremble	det
22	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 tremble	amod
23	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tremble	compound
24	tremble	tremble	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 fear	case
26	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tremble	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eldest	det
30	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 said	nsubj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 said	advmod
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 princes	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 princes	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 princes	cop
36	only	only	ADV	_	38 princes	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 princes	det
38	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 said	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 crying	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 crying	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 crying	aux
42	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 princes	acl
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 joy	case
44	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 crying	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the soldier	a branch		from each	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient from each=Co-Patient
2	make	past	a loud noise	the youngest sister tremble		with fear	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tremble=Product
3	say speech: assert	past	the eldest		still; time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	noise	the princes			tree rules
5	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the princes			for joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient

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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