Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 37

Then she began to be glad, and thought to herself that the time was fast coming when all her troubles should end; yet repose was still far off, for one day as she was travelling on she missed the white feather, and when she lifted up her eyes she could nowhere see the dove.

Who acts: Lily, troubles, repose · What happens: begin, be, think, come, end, travel · To what, where: Lily, white feather, eyes, dove

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 (Lily, troubles, repose), 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 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 glad	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	cop
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 thought	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 fast	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fast	obl:unmarked
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fast	cop
16	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	advcl
17	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 fast	advcl
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 end	advmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 troubles	det
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 troubles	nmod:poss
21	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 end	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 end	aux
23	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 coming	ccomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 off	punct
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	26 repose	cc
26	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 off	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 off	cop
28	still	still	ADV	_	30 off	advmod
29	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 off	advmod
30	off	off	ADV	_	3 began	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 off	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 day	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 day	nummod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 off	obl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 travelling	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 travelling	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 travelling	aux
38	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
39	on	on	SCONJ	_	41 missed	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 missed	nsubj
41	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 travelling	ccomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 feather	det
43	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 feather	amod
44	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 missed	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 lifted	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 lifted	cc
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 lifted	advmod
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lifted	nsubj
49	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 lifted	compound:prt
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 eyes	nmod:poss
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 lifted	obj
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 see	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 see	aux
55	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	56 see	advmod
56	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 lifted	parataxis
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 dove	det
58	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 see	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Lily			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	Lily not said here				glad property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	participle	Lily not said here		Lily			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Lily not said here			time	fast property	tree rules
5	come	gerund	Lily not said here					tree rules
6	end	should	Lily's troubles					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	is	past	repose			still; day	far, off property	tree rules
8	travel	past · progressive	Lily					tree rules
9	miss	past	Lily	the white feather				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus
10	lift up	past	Lily	Lily's eyes				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
11	see	could	Lily	the dove			nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus
12	trouble		Lily					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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