Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 50
Presently the king’s daughter herself came down into the garden, and was amazed to see that the young man had done the task she had given him.
Who acts: daughter, young man · What happens: come down, be, see, do, give · To what, where: garden, task, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter, young man), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 daughter | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 amazed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 amazed | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 amazed | cop |
| 15 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 amazed | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 see | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 task | det |
| 25 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 done | obj |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 given | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 given | aux |
| 28 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 task | acl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 given | iobj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the king's daughter | the garden | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the king's daughter not said here | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the king's daughter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | the young man | the task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect | daughter | the task not said here | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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