Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 35

As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, ‘I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.’

Who acts: princesses, prince, soldier, I, we, boat · What happens: row, be, say, not know, not get on, seem · To what, where: lake, boat, my · 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 (princesses, prince, soldier, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 rowing	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rowing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rowing	aux
4	rowing	row	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 boat	advcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rowing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rowing	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boat	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 boat	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 boat	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 boat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boat	det
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 princess	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
18	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 princess	amod
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boat	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 soldier	det
22	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 princess	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 know	advmod
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 is	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 is	nsubj
32	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rowing	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 rowing	cc
35	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 rowing	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 rowing	nsubj
37	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 rowing	aux
38	rowing	row	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 know	advcl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 my	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 my	det:predet
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 rowing	obj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 get	aux
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 get	nsubj
44	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 get	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 get	advmod
46	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 my	ccomp
47	on	on	ADV	_	46 get	advmod
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 fast	advmod
49	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 get	advmod
50	as	as	ADP	_	51 usual	case
51	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 fast	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 tired	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 tired	cc
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 tired	nsubj
55	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 tired	cop
56	quite	quite	ADV	_	57 tired	advmod
57	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 get	advcl
58	:	:	PUNCT	_	61 seems	punct
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 boat	det
60	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 seems	nsubj
61	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 tired	conj
62	very	very	ADV	_	63 heavy	advmod
63	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 today	amod
64	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 seems	obl:unmarked
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 boat	punct
66	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 boat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	past · progressive	princesses = princess		the lake			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over lake=Trajectory
2	is	past	the prince		the boat		with the youngest princess	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the soldier					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	present	soldier					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	row	present · progressive	I	my				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Theme
7	not get on	might · do-support	we				fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	present	I				tired property	tree rules
9	seem	present	the boat			today		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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