Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 56
The youth, full of joy, set out homewards, and took the Golden Apple to the king’s beautiful daughter, who had now no more excuses left to make.
Who acts: youth, beautiful daughter · What happens: set out, take, not excuse, leave, make · To what, where: Golden Apple, beautiful daughter, more excuses
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, beautiful daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 youth | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 homewards | punct |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 homewards | amod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 youth | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Apple | det |
| 15 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Apple | amod |
| 16 | Apple | Apple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 daughter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 daughter | amod |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 excuses | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 excuses | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 excuses | aux |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 excuses | advmod |
| 27 | no | no | ADV | _ | 29 excuses | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 excuses | amod |
| 29 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 daughter | appos |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 excuses | acl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 make | mark |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 left | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | take | past | the youth and set homewards | the Golden Apple | the king's beautiful daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to daughter=Destination | |||
| 3 | not excuse | past | the king's beautiful daughter | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | more excuses not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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