Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 22
Now she was so frightened that she did not see it; but her maid saw it, and was very glad, for she knew the charm; and she saw that the poor bride would be in her power, now that she had lost the hair.
Who acts: mother, maid, poor bride · What happens: be, not see, see, know, lose · To what, where: water, charm, power, hair
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, maid, poor bride), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 frightened | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightened | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 maid | nmod:poss |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 glad | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 glad | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 glad | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 glad | advmod |
| 22 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saw | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 knew | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 glad | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 charm | det |
| 28 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 knew | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 saw | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 saw | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 power | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bride | det |
| 35 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bride | amod |
| 36 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 power | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 power | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 power | cop |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 power | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 power | nmod:poss |
| 41 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 lost | punct |
| 43 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 lost | advmod |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 lost | mark |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 lost | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 lost | aux |
| 47 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 saw | conj |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 hair | det |
| 49 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lost | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mother | now | frightened property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | mother | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | mother's maid | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | mother's maid not said here | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | past | mother | the charm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer charm=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | see | past | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is | would | the poor bride | mother's power | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lose | past · perfect | mother | the hair | now | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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