Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 38
‘Now,’ thought she to herself, ‘no aid of man can be of use to me.’
Who acts: aid · What happens: think, be · To what, where: Lily, me · 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 (aid), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thought | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aid | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 aid | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 aid | det |
| 12 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 use | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aid | nmod |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 use | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 use | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 use | case |
| 18 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 use | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 use | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Lily | Lily | now | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | can | no aid of man | me | of use | tree rules |
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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