Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 94
But they did not know her, and thought it must be some strange princess, she looked so fine and beautiful in her rich clothes; and they never once thought of Ashputtel, taking it for granted that she was safe at home in the dirt.
Who acts: sisters, gold, bird · What happens: not know, think, be, look, take, grant · To what, where: bird, strange princess, sisters, gold, home · 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 (sisters, gold, bird), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 princess | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 princess | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 princess | cop |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 princess | det |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 princess | amod |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 princess | acl:relcl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 fine | advmod |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looked | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beautiful | cc |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fine | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 clothes | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 clothes | amod |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 beautiful | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thought | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 once | advmod |
| 31 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 thought | advmod |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 know | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Ashputtel | case |
| 34 | Ashputtel | Ashputtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 thought | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 taking | punct |
| 36 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 thought | advcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 taking | obj |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 granted | mark |
| 39 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 taking | advcl |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 safe | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 safe | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 safe | cop |
| 43 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 taking | advcl |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 home | case |
| 45 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 safe | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 dirt | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 dirt | det |
| 48 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 home | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | sisters = sister | bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | sisters = sister not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | must | gold | some strange princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | past | bird | some strange princess not said here | fine property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Attribute | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | participle · passive | sisters = sister | of Ashputtel; once property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | gerund | gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | grant | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | bird | home in the dirt | safe property | 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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