Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 15
And as he came near home, it was Lily, his youngest and dearest daughter, that met him; she came running, and kissed him, and welcomed him home; and when she saw that he had brought her the rose, she was still more glad.
Who acts: last, lion, Lily, rose · What happens: come, be, meet, run, kiss, welcome · To what, where: Lily, last, rose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, lion, Lily, rose), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | advcl |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 home | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Lily | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Lily | cop |
| 10 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 daughter | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dearest | cc |
| 15 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 youngest | conj |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Lily | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 met | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 met | nsubj |
| 19 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Lily | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 met | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 came | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kissed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 kissed | cc |
| 27 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 kissed | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 welcomed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 welcomed | cc |
| 31 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 kissed | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 welcomed | obj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 welcomed | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 saw | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 saw | cc |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 saw | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 saw | nsubj |
| 38 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | conj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 brought | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 brought | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 brought | aux |
| 42 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 saw | ccomp |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 brought | obj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 rose | det |
| 45 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 brought | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 glad | punct |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 glad | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 glad | cop |
| 49 | still | still | ADV | _ | 51 glad | advmod |
| 50 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 51 glad | amod |
| 51 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 came | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | last | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | lion | Lily and last's youngest daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | Lily and last's youngest daughter | last | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Lily | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | Lily not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | kiss | past | last | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 7 | welcome | past | last | home property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 8 | see | past | Lily | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | bring | past · perfect | last | the rose | Lily | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination rose=Theme | |||
| 10 | is | past | rose | still | glad property | tree rules |
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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