Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 39
Many had already made the attempt, but in vain; nevertheless when the youth saw the king’s daughter he was so overcome by her great beauty that he forgot all danger, went before the king, and declared himself a suitor.
Who acts: youth, great beauty · What happens: make, see, overcome, forget, go, declare · To what, where: Many, daughter, youth, danger
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 (youth, great beauty), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attempt | det |
| 6 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vain | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 vain | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vain | case |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 12 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 16 saw | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 vain | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 overcome | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 overcome | aux:pass |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 overcome | advmod |
| 24 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 beauty | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beauty | amod |
| 28 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 overcome | obl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 forgot | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 forgot | nsubj |
| 31 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 overcome | advcl |
| 32 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 danger | advmod |
| 33 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 forgot | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 forgot | conj |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 38 king | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 declared | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 declared | cc |
| 41 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 declared | obj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 suitor | det |
| 44 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 declared | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | Many | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary attempt=Product | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the youth | the king's daughter | nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | overcome | past · passive | daughter's great beauty | youth | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | youth | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | youth not said here | before the king | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before king=Location | ||||
| 6 | declare speech: other | past | the youth not said here | youth | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme suitor=Attribute |
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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