Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 29
Her second sister was soon after married, and when Lily was asked to go to the wedding, she said to the prince, ‘I will not go alone this time--you must go with me.’
Who acts: second sister, Lily, sister, I, you · What happens: be, ask, go, say, not go · To what, where: Lily, wedding · 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 (second sister, Lily, sister, I), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | cop |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 married | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 married | case |
| 7 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 asked | advmod |
| 11 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | aux:pass |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 married | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 wedding | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wedding | det |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 prince | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 go | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 go | advmod |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 31 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 go | punct |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 go | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 go | aux |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 me | case |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 go | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sister's second sister | married, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | Lily | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lily not said here | the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | sister | to the prince | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to prince=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not go | future | I | time | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | go | must | you | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
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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