Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 107
Then the king’s son lost sight of her, and could not find out where she was gone, but waited till her father came home, and said to him, ‘The unknown lady who danced with me has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung into the pear-tree.’
Who acts: son, lady, father, unknown lady, I · What happens: lose, not find out, be, wait, come, say · To what, where: sight, son, lady, pear tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, lady, father, unknown lady), 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 | 6 lost | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 find | advmod |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lost | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 find | compound:prt |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 gone | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | cop |
| 19 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 find | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 waited | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 waited | cc |
| 22 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | conj |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 came | mark |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 waited | advcl |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 came | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 waited | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 slipped | punct |
| 34 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 slipped | punct |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lady | det |
| 36 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lady | amod |
| 37 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 slipped | nsubj |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 danced | nsubj |
| 39 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 lady | acl:relcl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 me | case |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 danced | obl |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 slipped | aux |
| 43 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 said | conj |
| 44 | away | away | ADV | _ | 43 slipped | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 think | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 think | cc |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 think | nsubj |
| 48 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | parataxis |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 sprung | aux |
| 51 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 sprung | aux |
| 52 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 think | ccomp |
| 53 | into | into | ADP | _ | 57 tree | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 tree | det |
| 55 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 tree | compound |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 pear | punct |
| 57 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 sprung | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
| 59 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the king's son | sight of lady | then | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not find out | could | the king's son not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | lady | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait | past | the king's son not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | past | lady's father | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the king's son not said here | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | dance | past | the unknown lady | with me | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | slip away | present · perfect | the unknown lady | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 9 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 10 | spring | must · perfect · passive | lady | the pear tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 11 | sight | lady | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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