Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 41
The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest princess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.
Who acts: princes, soldier, sisters, princesses · What happens: row back, place, take, promise, come · To what, where: sisters, lake, eldest, boat, leave, opposite shore
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 (princes, soldier, sisters, princesses), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princes | det |
| 2 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rowed | nsubj |
| 3 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rowed | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 rowed | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 rowed | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rowed | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 but | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lake | conj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 but | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldier | det |
| 15 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | nsubj |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 placed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 boat | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boat | det |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 princess | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 23 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 princess | amod |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boat | nmod |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 princess | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 took | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 took | cc |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 shore | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shore | det |
| 30 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 shore | amod |
| 31 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 took | obl |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 took | nsubj |
| 33 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rowed | conj |
| 34 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 took | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 each | case |
| 36 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 leave | nmod |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 each | fixed |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 promising | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 princesses | det |
| 40 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 promising | nsubj |
| 41 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 took | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 come | mark |
| 43 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 promising | xcomp |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 come | advmod |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 night | det |
| 46 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 night | amod |
| 47 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 come | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row back | past | the princes | sisters = sister | the lake | again | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme over lake=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | place | past | the soldier | eldest = eld | the boat with the eldest princess | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in boat=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | sisters = sister | leave of each | the opposite shore | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leave=Theme on shore=Destination | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | gerund | the princesses | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the princesses not said here | again; night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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