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Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 55

When it came to her turn to sing, she stepped back, until at last she was the only one left, and then she could not refuse.

Who acts: wedding, girl · What happens: come, sing, step back, be, leave, not refuse · To what, where: turn, only one

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 (wedding, 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

advmodnsubjadvclcasenmod:possoblmarkadvclpunctnsubjadvmodpunctcasecaseconjnsubjcopdetamodparataxisaclpunctccadvmodnsubjauxadvmodparataxispunctrootWhenADVitPRONcameVERBtoADPherPRONturnNOUNtoPARTsingVERB,PUNCTshePRONsteppedVERBbackADV,PUNCTuntilADPatADPlastADJshePRONwasAUXtheDETonlyADJoneNOUNleftVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVshePRONcouldAUXnotPARTrefuseVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 cameadvmod
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 steppedadvcl
4totoADP_6 turncase
5herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 turnnmod:poss
6turnturnNOUNNumber=Sing3 cameobl
7totoPART_8 singmark
8singsingVERBVerbForm=Inf3 cameadvcl
9,,PUNCT_3 camepunct
10sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 steppednsubj
11steppedstepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12backbackADV_11 steppedadvmod
13,,PUNCT_16 lastpunct
14untiluntilADP_16 lastcase
15atatADP_16 lastcase
16lastlastADJDegree=Pos11 steppedconj
17sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 onensubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 onecop
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 onedet
20onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos21 oneamod
21oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing16 lastparataxis
22leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 oneacl
23,,PUNCT_29 refusepunct
24andandCCONJ_29 refusecc
25thenthenADVPronType=Dem29 refuseadvmod
26sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 refusensubj
27couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin29 refuseaux
28notnotPARTPolarity=Neg29 refuseadvmod
29refuserefuseVERBVerbForm=Inf11 steppedparataxis
30..PUNCT_11 steppedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastweddinggirl's turnvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial_Location
2sing speech: expressto-infinitivewedding not said herevn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3step backpastgirlvn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4is apastgirlthe only onetree rules
5leaveparticiplethe only one not said herevn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6not refusecouldgirlthenvn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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