Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 29
As she looked very pretty, and too delicate for a waiting-maid, he went up into the royal chamber to ask the bride who it was she had brought with her, that was thus left standing in the court below.
Who acts: maid, king, that · What happens: look, go up, ask, bring, leave, stand · To what, where: royal chamber, bride, that, court
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 (maid, king, that), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 looked | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | advcl |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pretty | advmod |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 delicate | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 delicate | cc |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 delicate | advmod |
| 9 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 maid | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maid | det |
| 12 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maid | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 waiting | punct |
| 14 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delicate | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 chamber | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chamber | det |
| 21 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chamber | amod |
| 22 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bride | det |
| 26 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ask | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 brought | aux:pass |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 brought | aux |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bride | acl:relcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 left | punct |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 left | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 left | aux:pass |
| 38 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 39 left | advmod |
| 39 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 went | parataxis |
| 40 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 left | xcomp |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 court | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 court | det |
| 43 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 standing | obl |
| 44 | below | below | ADV | _ | 43 court | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | maid | pretty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | king | the royal chamber | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | king not said here | the bride | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the bride | with maid | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | that | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | that not said here | the court | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent 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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