Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 140
However, the prince would have her come; and she first washed her face and hands, and then went in and curtsied to him, and he reached her the golden slipper.
Who acts: prince, mother · What happens: have, come, wash, go in, curtsy, reach · To what, where: mother, face, prince, golden slipper
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, mother), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 washed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 washed | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 washed | nsubj |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 washed | advmod |
| 13 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 washed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hands | cc |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 face | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 went | advmod |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 washed | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 curtsied | cc |
| 24 | curtsied | curtsy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 went | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 curtsied | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reached | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reached | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 reached | nsubj |
| 30 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 washed | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 reached | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 slipper | det |
| 33 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 slipper | amod |
| 34 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reached | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | the prince | mother | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | infinitive | mother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wash | past | mother | mother's face and hands | first property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | |||
| 4 | go in | past | mother not said here | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | curtsy | participle | mother not said here | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | reach | past | prince | the golden slipper | mother | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary slipper=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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