Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 26
After some time he said to her, ‘Tomorrow there will be a great feast in your father’s house, for your eldest sister is to be married; and if you wish to go and visit her my lions shall lead you thither.’
Who acts: prince, Tomorrow, you, lions · What happens: say, be, marry, wish, go, visit · To what, where: bride, great feast, house, eldest sister, you · 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 (prince, Tomorrow, you, lions), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feast | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 feast | punct |
| 10 | Tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feast | nsubj |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 be | expl |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 feast | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feast | amod |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feast | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 married | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 married | mark |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 sister | amod |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 married | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 married | aux:pass |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 married | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 married | aux:pass |
| 30 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 wish | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wish | cc |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 wish | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 wish | nsubj |
| 35 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 go | mark |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wish | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 visit | cc |
| 39 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 go | conj |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 lions | nmod:poss |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 lions | nmod:poss |
| 42 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 lead | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 lead | aux |
| 44 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 visit | ccomp |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 lead | obj |
| 46 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 44 lead | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | prince | bride | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | Tomorrow | a great feast | your father's house | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry | present · passive | your eldest sister | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | visit | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | lead | shall | bride's lions | you | thither property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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