Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 115
When the queen got home, she went straight to her glass, and spoke to it as before; but to her great grief it still said:
Who acts: queen, care · What happens: get, go, speak, say · To what, where: glass, care, great grief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, care), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 glass | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 glass | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 glass | nmod:poss |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | cc |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 before | case |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 spoke | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 grief | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grief | nmod:poss |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grief | amod |
| 25 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 said | advmod |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the queen | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | queen | queen's glass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glass=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | queen not said here | care | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | care | queen's great grief | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grief=Recipient |
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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