Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 28
The king’s son remained there a short while longer, and he thought of his mother, and wondered if she were still alive.
Who acts: son, cook, dog · What happens: remain, think, wonder, be
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, cook, dog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 remained | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 short | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remained | xcomp |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 longer | mark |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 remained | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wondered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wondered | cc |
| 20 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | conj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 alive | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 alive | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 alive | cop |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 alive | advmod |
| 25 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wondered | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the king's son | there | long, short property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | cook | of cook's mother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | cook not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | dog | still | alive property | tree rules |
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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