Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 142
And when he drew near and looked at her face he knew her, and said, ‘This is the right bride.’
Who acts: prince, This · What happens: draw, look, know, say, be · To what, where: mother, right bride · 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 drew | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | advcl |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 face | acl:relcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bride | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 bride | punct |
| 19 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 bride | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bride | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bride | det |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bride | amod |
| 23 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | prince | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | at mother's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | past | prince | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | This | the right bride | tree rules |
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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