Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 51
But she could not yet conquer her proud heart, and said: ‘Although he has performed both the tasks, he shall not be my husband until he had brought me an apple from the Tree of Life.’
Who acts: daughter, man · What happens: not conquer, say, perform, not be, bring · To what, where: proud heart, tasks, husband, apple, me · 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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 conquer | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 conquer | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 conquer | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 conquer | advmod |
| 6 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquer | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquer | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 performed | punct |
| 15 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 18 performed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 performed | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 performed | aux |
| 18 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 husband | advcl |
| 19 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 21 tasks | cc:preconj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tasks | det |
| 21 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 performed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 performed | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 husband | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 husband | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 husband | cop |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 brought | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 brought | aux |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 husband | advcl |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | obj |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 apple | det |
| 35 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brought | obj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 Tree | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Tree | det |
| 38 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 apple | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Life | case |
| 40 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Tree | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conquer | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 conquer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not conquer | could | daughter | daughter's proud heart | yet | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | daughter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | perform | present · perfect | man | the tasks | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is a | shall | man | my husband | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect | man | a apple | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination apple=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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