Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 54
When the faithful maiden heard of this, she grew so sad that she thought her heart would break, and she would not go thither, but the other girls came and took her.
Who acts: faithful maiden heard, heard, heart, other girls · What happens: grow, think, break, not go, come, take · To what, where: girl · 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 (faithful maiden heard, heard, heart, other girls), 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 | 10 grew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heard | det |
| 3 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | amod |
| 5 | heard | heard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | advcl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 sad | advmod |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sad | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 break | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 break | aux |
| 19 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 go | advmod |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 break | conj |
| 26 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 came | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 girls | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 girls | amod |
| 31 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 took | cc |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the faithful maiden heard of this | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | heard | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | would | heard's heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not go | would | heart | thither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the other girls | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take | past | the other girls not said here | girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=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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