Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 56
But when she began her song, and it reached Roland’s ears, he sprang up and cried: ‘I know the voice, that is the true bride, I will have no other!’
Who acts: girl, song, Roland, I, that · What happens: begin, reach, spring up, cry, know, be · To what, where: song, ears, voice, true bride, other · 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 (girl, song, Roland, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 began | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 song | nmod:poss |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Roland | case |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reached | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sprang | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sprang | nsubj |
| 16 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 sprang | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sprang | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cried | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bride | punct |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 bride | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 bride | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bride | det |
| 30 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 bride | amod |
| 31 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 reached | parataxis |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 other | det |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | girl | girl's song | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | song | Roland's ears | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring up | past | Roland | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Roland not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know | present | I | the voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | that | the true bride | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | future | I | no other | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient | ||||
| 8 | sing | girl | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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