Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 46
At first he refused, but she wept still more and more, and fell at his feet, till at last he consented; but the moment she came to her father’s house the guards awoke and he was taken prisoner again.
Who acts: fox, princess, moment · What happens: refuse, weep, fall, consent, come, awake · To what, where: feet, moment, fox
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 (fox, princess, moment), 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 | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 refused | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wept | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 wept | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wept | nsubj |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 wept | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 more | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 more | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 consented | punct |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consented | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 consented | nsubj |
| 24 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 awoke | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 awoke | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 moment | det |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 awoke | nsubj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 moment | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 house | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 house | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 father | case |
| 35 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 guards | det |
| 37 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 awoke | nsubj |
| 38 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 taken | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 taken | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 taken | aux:pass |
| 42 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 awoke | conj |
| 43 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 taken | xcomp |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 taken | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | fox | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | princess | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | fox not said here | fox's feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||||
| 4 | consent | past | fox | till last | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come | past | princess | the moment not said here | to princess's father's house | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme | |||
| 6 | awake | past | the moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | take | past · passive | fox | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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