Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 39
So she went to the sun and said, ‘Thou shinest everywhere, on the hill’s top and the valley’s depth--hast thou anywhere seen my white dove?’
Who acts: Lily, Thou · What happens: go, say, shine, have, see · To what, where: sun, top, white dove · 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 (Lily, Thou), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shinest | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 shinest | punct |
| 11 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 shinest | nsubj |
| 12 | shinest | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 shinest | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 top | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 top | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hill | det |
| 17 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 top | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 hill | case |
| 19 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shinest | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 depth | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 valley | det |
| 22 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 depth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 valley | case |
| 24 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 top | conj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 hast | punct |
| 26 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shinest | conj |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 seen | nsubj |
| 28 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 seen | advmod |
| 29 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 hast | ccomp |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 dove | nmod:poss |
| 31 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 dove | amod |
| 32 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seen | obj |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lily | the sun | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sun=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lily not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shine | present | Thou | the hill's top and the valley's depth | everywhere property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location | |||
| 4 | have | present | Thou not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | participle | thou | my white dove | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus |
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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