Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 39

At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the eldest always silenced her.

Who acts: eldest · What happens: frighten, silence · To what, where: this, woman

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 frightened	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	11 frightened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 frightened	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
7	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 sister	amod
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frightened	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	aux:pass
10	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	11 frightened	advmod
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 silenced	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 silenced	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eldest	det
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 silenced	nsubj
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 silenced	advmod
17	silenced	silence	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 silenced	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		this				terribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	silence	past	the eldest	woman				always property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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