Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 9
After him came several others; but they had all the same luck, and all lost their lives in the same manner.
Who acts: others · What happens: come, have, lose · To what, where: several others, same luck, lives, same manner
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 (others), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 others | amod |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 luck | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 luck | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 luck | amod |
| 13 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lost | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 lost | advmod |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lives | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lost | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 manner | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 manner | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 manner | amod |
| 23 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | several others | after king | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location other=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | others = other | all same luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | others's lives | the same manner | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
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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