Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 45

But when the proud princess perceived that he was not her equal in birth, she scorned him, and required him first to perform another task.

Who acts: proud princess, youth, princess · What happens: perceive, not be, scorn, require, perform · To what, where: birth, youth, task

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 (proud princess, youth, princess), 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	_	17 scorned	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 perceived	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 princess	amod
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	nsubj
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 scorned	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 equal	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 equal	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 equal	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 equal	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 equal	nmod:poss
12	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 perceived	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 birth	case
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 equal	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 perceived	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scorned	nsubj
17	scorned	scorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scorned	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 required	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 required	cc
21	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 scorned	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 required	obj
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 required	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 perform	mark
25	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 required	xcomp
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 task	det
27	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 perform	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 scorned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the proud princess				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	past	youth		birth	equal property	tree rules
3	scorn	past	princess	youth			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	require	past	princess not said here	youth		first property	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	perform	to-infinitive	princess not said here	another task			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=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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