Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 126
Then the prince got down and looked at her foot; and he saw, by the blood that streamed from it, what a trick she had played him.
Who acts: prince, blood, trick · What happens: get down, look, see, stream, play · To what, where: blood, prince
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, blood, trick), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blood | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 blood | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blood | det |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 streamed | nsubj |
| 20 | streamed | stream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 blood | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 streamed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 what | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 saw | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 trick | det |
| 26 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 what | nsubj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 played | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 played | aux |
| 29 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 trick | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 played | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | the prince | then | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | look | past | the prince not said here | at bride's foot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | prince | the blood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stream | past | the blood | blood | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from it=Source | ||||
| 5 | play | past · perfect | trick | prince | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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