Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 46
He was certainly pleased with this good attendance, but still at last he was so afraid that he went to a wise woman and asked for her advice.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: be, go, ask
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 (dinner), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 attendance | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 attendance | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 attendance | amod |
| 8 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 last | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 last | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 last | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pleased | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 last | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 woman | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 woman | det |
| 23 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woman | amod |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 asked | cc |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 advice | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 advice | nmod:poss |
| 29 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dinner | with this good attendance; certainly, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | dinner not said here | still | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | dinner | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | dinner | to a wise woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | dinner not said here | for woman's advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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