Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 25
The prince was only to be seen as soon as evening came, and then he held his court; but every morning he left his bride, and went away by himself, she knew not whither, till the night came again.
Who acts: evening, prince, bride, night · What happens: see, come, hold, leave, go away, not know · To what, where: prince, court, bride
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 (evening, prince, bride, night), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 seen | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 seen | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 soon | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 held | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | nsubj |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 court | nmod:poss |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 left | cc |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 morning | det |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 left | nsubj |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bride | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 himself | case |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 went | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 knew | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 knew | nsubj |
| 36 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | parataxis |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 knew | advmod |
| 38 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 knew | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 came | punct |
| 40 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 43 came | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 night | det |
| 42 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 came | nsubj |
| 43 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 knew | conj |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 came | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | the prince | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | prince | prince's court | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | past | prince | prince's bride | morning | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | |||
| 5 | go away | past | prince not said here | by prince; away property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by himself=Location | ||||
| 6 | not know | past | bride | whither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | come | past | the night | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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