Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 43
Then she thanked the moon, and went on till the night-wind blew; and she raised up her voice to it, and said, ‘Thou blowest through every tree and under every leaf--hast thou not seen my white dove?’
Who acts: need, night wind, Thou · What happens: thank, go on, blow, raise up, say, have · To what, where: moon, voice, tree, 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 (need, night wind, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 blew | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wind | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 night | punct |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blew | nsubj |
| 15 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 raised | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 raised | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 raised | nsubj |
| 19 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 raised | compound:prt |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 voice | nmod:poss |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 raised | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 raised | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 blowest | punct |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 blowest | punct |
| 30 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 blowest | nsubj |
| 31 | blowest | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | ccomp |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 tree | case |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 tree | det |
| 34 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 blowest | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 leaf | cc |
| 36 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 leaf | case |
| 37 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 leaf | det |
| 38 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tree | conj |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 hast | punct |
| 40 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 blowest | conj |
| 41 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 seen | nsubj |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 seen | advmod |
| 43 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 hast | ccomp |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 dove | nmod:poss |
| 45 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 dove | amod |
| 46 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 seen | obj |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | need | the moon | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | |||
| 2 | go on | past | need not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blow | past | the night wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | raise up | past | need | need's voice | moon | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to it=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | need not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | blow | present | Thou | every tree and every leaf | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | have | present | Thou not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | not see | participle | thou | my white dove | 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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