Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 32
Then the King and Queen flew home to their children and cried: ‘Children, rejoice, eat and drink to your heart’s content, we have won the battle!’
Who acts: King, Children, we · What happens: fly, cry, rejoice, eat, drink, win · To what, where: battle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Children, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Queen | cc |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 flew | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 rejoice | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Children | punct |
| 15 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rejoice | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rejoice | punct |
| 17 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rejoice | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drink | cc |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rejoice | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 content | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 content | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 26 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drink | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 won | punct |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 won | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 won | aux |
| 30 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 rejoice | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 battle | det |
| 32 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 won | obj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 won | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the King and Queen | then | to animals's children result; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to child=Result | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the King and Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | infinitive | Children | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | Children not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | infinitive | Children not said here | to your heart's content | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | win | present · perfect | we | the battle | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=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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