Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 20
So he cut off her head, and as she was being dressed for the spit, the queen’s ring was found inside her.
Who acts: king · What happens: cut off, dress, find · To what, where: head, queen, ring
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 cut | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dressed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dressed | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dressed | aux:pass |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 dressed | aux:pass |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cut | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 spit | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spit | det |
| 16 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dressed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ring | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 queen | case |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 dressed | conj |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | king | queen's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dress | past · passive | queen | for the spit | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | the queen's ring | inside queen | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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