Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 136
‘This time nothing will save thee,’ said the queen; and she went home to her glass, and at last it said:
Who acts: nothing, queen, apple · What happens: save, say, go · To what, where: thee, queen, glass, last · 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 (nothing, queen, apple), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 save | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 save | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 save | aux |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 save | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 save | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 save | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 glass | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 glass | nmod:poss |
| 20 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 said | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | future | nothing | thee | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | past | queen | queen's glass | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glass=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | apple | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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