Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 115
The prince took the shoe, and went the next day to the king his father, and said, ‘I will take for my wife the lady that this golden slipper fits.’
Who acts: prince, I, golden slipper · What happens: take, go, say, fit · To what, where: shoe, father, lady · 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 (prince, I, golden slipper), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shoe | det |
| 5 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lady | det |
| 29 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 fits | mark |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 slipper | det |
| 32 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 slipper | amod |
| 33 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fits | nsubj |
| 34 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the prince | the shoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the prince not said here | king's father | day | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | future | I | the lady | for my wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lady=Theme for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | fit | present | this golden slipper | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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