Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 27
Then she rejoiced much at the thoughts of seeing her father once more, and set out with the lions; and everyone was overjoyed to see her, for they had thought her dead long since.
Who acts: sister, thoughts · What happens: rejoice, see, set out, overjoy, think · To what, where: thoughts, father, everyone, sister
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 (sister, thoughts), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rejoiced | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 rejoiced | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 thoughts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thoughts | det |
| 7 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rejoiced | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 thoughts | acl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 seeing | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 lions | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lions | det |
| 20 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 overjoyed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 overjoyed | cc |
| 23 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 25 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 overjoyed | xcomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thought | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 thought | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 thought | aux |
| 33 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 overjoyed | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 thought | obj |
| 35 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 thought | xcomp |
| 36 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 since | advmod |
| 37 | since | since | ADV | _ | 33 thought | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | sister | the thoughts | then | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | the thoughts not said here | sister's father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | sister not said here | with the lions | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | overjoy | past · passive | everyone | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | thoughts = thought | dead, since property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute |
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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