Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 50
Instantly the transformation came to an end, and a beautiful girl stood before him, who admitted to him that she had been the flower, and that up to this time she had attended to his house-keeping.
Who acts: transformation, beautiful girl, girl · What happens: come, stand, admit, be, attend, keep · To what, where: end, transformation, flower, that
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 (transformation, beautiful girl, girl), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 transformation | det |
| 3 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 admitted | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 admitted | nsubj |
| 18 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stood | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 admitted | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 flower | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 flower | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 flower | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 flower | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flower | det |
| 26 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 admitted | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 attended | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 attended | cc |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 attended | obl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 that | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 attended | obl |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 attended | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 attended | aux |
| 36 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 came | conj |
| 37 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 41 keeping | mark |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 keeping | nsubj |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 keeping | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 house | punct |
| 41 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 attended | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the transformation | to a end | instantly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a beautiful girl | before transformation | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | past | transformation | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | girl | the flower | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | attend | past · perfect | girl | that | time | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | keep | gerund | transformation | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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