Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 34
One of the princesses went into each boat, and the soldier stepped into the same boat with the youngest.
Who acts: One, soldier · What happens: go, step · To what, where: boat, same boat
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 (One, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 went | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 princesses | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princesses | det |
| 4 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stepped | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stepped | nsubj |
| 13 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boat | amod |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stepped | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 youngest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youngest | det |
| 20 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 stepped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | One | each boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into boat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | step | past | the soldier | the same boat | with the youngest | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination |
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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