Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 127
So he turned his horse round, and brought the false bride back to her home, and said, ‘This is not the right bride; let the other sister try and put on the slipper.’
Who acts: prince, This, other sister · What happens: turn, bring, say, not be, let, try · To what, where: horse, false bride, home, right bride, other sister, slipper · 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, This, other sister), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bride | det |
| 11 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bride | amod |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | 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 turned | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bride | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 bride | punct |
| 22 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 bride | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 bride | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 bride | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bride | det |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bride | amod |
| 27 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sister | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sister | amod |
| 32 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obj |
| 33 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 put | cc |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 try | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 slipper | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 slipper | det |
| 38 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | prince | prince's horse | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past | prince not said here | the false bride | bride's home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to home=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is a | present | This | the right bride | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | the other sister | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | try | infinitive | the other sister not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | put | infinitive | the other sister not said here | the slipper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination |
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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