Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 27
There was great joy at their coming, and the prince flew to meet them, and lifted the maid from her horse, thinking she was the one who was to be his wife; and she was led upstairs to the royal chamber; but the true princess was told to stay in the court below.
Who acts: clothes, prince, maid, one, true princess · What happens: come, be, meet, lift, think, lead · To what, where: clothes, maid, one, wife, royal chamber, true princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (clothes, prince, maid, one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | cop |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joy | amod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 coming | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 flew | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lifted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lifted | cc |
| 18 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maid | det |
| 20 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lifted | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lifted | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thinking | punct |
| 25 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 lifted | advcl |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 one | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 one | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thinking | ccomp |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 wife | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 wife | cop |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 wife | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wife | cop |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wife | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 one | acl:relcl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 led | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 led | cc |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 led | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 led | aux:pass |
| 40 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flew | conj |
| 41 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 40 led | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 chamber | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 chamber | det |
| 44 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 chamber | amod |
| 45 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 led | obl |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 told | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 told | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 princess | det |
| 49 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 princess | amod |
| 50 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 told | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 told | aux:pass |
| 52 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flew | conj |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 stay | mark |
| 54 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 told | xcomp |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 court | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 court | det |
| 57 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 stay | obl |
| 58 | below | below | ADV | _ | 57 court | advmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | clothes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the prince | fly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | clothes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | lift | past | the prince not said here | the maid | from maid's horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maid=Theme from horse=Destination | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | the prince not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | maid | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | the one | prince's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lead | past · passive | maid | the royal chamber | upstairs property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to chamber=Destination | |||
| 9 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the true princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the true princess not said here | the court | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in court=Location |
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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