Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 61
But when she was led in she ate nothing, and said: ‘The gracious and merciful God who has supported me in the tower, will soon set me free.’
Who acts: dog · What happens: lead in, eat, say, support, set · To what, where: dog, nothing, gracious God, tower, me · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 ate | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 led | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | aux:pass |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ate | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 led | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ate | nsubj |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 ate | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ate | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 supported | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 supported | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 God | det |
| 16 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 God | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 merciful | cc |
| 18 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gracious | conj |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 supported | aux |
| 22 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 supported | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tower | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tower | det |
| 26 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supported | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 set | punct |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 set | aux |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 set | advmod |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 supported | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 set | obj |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 set | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ate | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead in | past · passive | dog | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | dog | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | dog not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | support | present · perfect · passive | the gracious God | the tower | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | set | future | me | free, soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
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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