Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 43
At twelve o’clock at night the princess goes to the bathing-house: go up to her and give her a kiss, and she will let you lead her away; but take care you do not suffer her to go and take leave of her father and mother.’
Who acts: princess, you · What happens: go, go up, give, let, lead away, take · To what, where: twelve o’clock, princess, kiss, you, care, leave
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, you), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 o’clock | case |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o’clock | nummod |
| 3 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 o’clock | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | nsubj |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 11 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 bathing | punct |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 goes | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 go | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 kiss | det |
| 23 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 let | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 let | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 let | aux |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 let | xcomp |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lead | obj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 lead | advmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 take | cc |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | parataxis |
| 36 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 suffer | nsubj |
| 38 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 suffer | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 suffer | advmod |
| 40 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 take | conj |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 suffer | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 go | mark |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 suffer | xcomp |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 take | cc |
| 45 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 go | conj |
| 46 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 take | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 father | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 father | nmod:poss |
| 49 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 leave | nmod |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 mother | cc |
| 51 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 father | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 goes | punct |
| 53 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the princess | twelve o’clock at night | to the bathing house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go up | infinitive | the princess not said here | princess | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | the princess not said here | a kiss | princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kiss=Theme | |||
| 4 | let | future | princess | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lead away | infinitive | you not said here | princess | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 6 | take | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not suffer | present · do-support | you | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | take | infinitive | you not said here | leave of princess's father and mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
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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