Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 88
The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side, and the true one on the other; but nobody knew her again, for her beauty was quite dazzling to their eyes; and she did not seem at all like the little goose-girl, now that she had her brilliant dress on.
Who acts: bridegroom, nobody, beauty · What happens: sit, know, dazzle, not seem, have on · To what, where: top, bridegroom, all, brilliant dress
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 (bridegroom, nobody, beauty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 princess | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 10 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princess | amod |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 side | nummod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 princess | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 one | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 princess | appos |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 other | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 knew | cc |
| 25 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 knew | obj |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 knew | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dazzling | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 dazzling | mark |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dazzling | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 dazzling | aux |
| 34 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 dazzling | advmod |
| 35 | dazzling | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 knew | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 eyes | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dazzling | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 seem | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 seem | cc |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 seem | nsubj |
| 42 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 seem | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 seem | advmod |
| 44 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 all | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 seem | obl |
| 47 | like | like | ADP | _ | 52 girl | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 girl | det |
| 49 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 girl | amod |
| 50 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 girl | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 goose | punct |
| 52 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 all | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 had | punct |
| 54 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 57 had | advmod |
| 55 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 57 had | mark |
| 56 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 had | nsubj |
| 57 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 seem | conj |
| 58 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 60 dress | nmod:poss |
| 59 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 dress | amod |
| 60 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 had | obj |
| 61 | on | on | ADP | _ | 57 had | compound:prt |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the bridegroom | the top | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | past | nobody | bridegroom | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | dazzle | past · progressive | girl's beauty | to tears's eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not seem | past · do-support | beauty | all | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have on | past | beauty | girl's brilliant dress | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient |
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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