Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 28

But she told them how happy she was, and stayed till the feast was over, and then went back to the wood.

Who acts: sister, feast · What happens: tell, be, stay, go back · To what, where: thoughts · 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 (sister, feast), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	ccomp
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stayed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stayed	cc
11	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 over	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feast	det
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 over	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 over	cop
16	over	over	ADV	_	11 stayed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 went	advmod
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stayed	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 wood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wood	det
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	sister	thoughts = thought			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	past	sister			happy property	tree rules
3	stay	past	sister not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the feast			over property	tree rules
5	go back	past	sister not said here		then	to the wood result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result

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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