Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 95
The king’s son soon came up to her, and took her by the hand and danced with her, and no one else: and he never left her hand; but when anyone else came to ask her to dance, he said, ‘This lady is dancing with me.’
Who acts: son, anyone, lady · What happens: come up, take, dance, not leave, come, ask · To what, where: bird, hand · 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 (son, anyone, lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 danced | cc |
| 18 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 danced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 one | cc |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | conj |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 one | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 left | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 left | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 left | nsubj |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 left | advmod |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hand | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 said | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 said | cc |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 38 came | mark |
| 36 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 38 came | nsubj |
| 37 | else | else | ADV | _ | 36 anyone | advmod |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 said | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 ask | mark |
| 40 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 came | xcomp |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 ask | iobj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 dance | mark |
| 43 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 ask | xcomp |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 said | nsubj |
| 46 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 dancing | punct |
| 48 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 dancing | punct |
| 49 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 lady | det |
| 50 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 dancing | nsubj |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 dancing | aux |
| 52 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 said | ccomp |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 me | case |
| 54 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 dancing | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 dancing | punct |
| 56 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the king's son | bird | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | the king's son not said here | bird | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 3 | dance | past | the king's son not said here | with bird | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not leave | past | son | bird's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | anyone | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | bird | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | dance not said to happen | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | dance | present · progressive | this lady | with me | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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