Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 59
Then the son said: ‘Now will I show her to you in her own form,’ and wished that she might become a maiden, and she stood there looking so beautiful that no painter could have made her look more so.
Who acts: son, I, dog, painter · What happens: say, show, wish, become, stand, look · To what, where: dog, maiden, painter · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I, dog, painter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
| 7 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 show | advmod |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 show | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 show | nsubj |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 show | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 show | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 form | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 form | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 form | amod |
| 17 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 show | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wished | cc |
| 21 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 become | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 become | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | aux |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wished | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 maiden | det |
| 27 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 become | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stood | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stood | nsubj |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 stood | advmod |
| 33 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 stood | advcl |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 beautiful | advmod |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 looking | xcomp |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 made | mark |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 painter | det |
| 38 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 made | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 made | aux |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 made | aux |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 beautiful | advcl |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 made | obj |
| 43 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 made | xcomp |
| 44 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 so | advmod |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 look | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the son | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | future | I | dog | now | to you; in dog's own form | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Patient to you=Recipient in form=Topic | ||
| 3 | wish | past | the son not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | become | might | dog | a maiden | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | dog | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | dog not said here | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | make | could · perfect · passive | no painter | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | look | infinitive | no painter not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | form | dog | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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