Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 51
So our poor wanderer went forth, and found all as the night-wind had said; and she plucked the eleventh rod, and smote the dragon, and the lion forthwith became a prince, and the dragon a princess again.
Who acts: poor wanderer, wanderer, lion, dragon · What happens: go, find, say, pluck, smote, become · To what, where: night wind, eleventh rod, dragon, prince · 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 (poor wanderer, wanderer, lion, dragon), 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 | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wanderer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wanderer | amod |
| 4 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 said | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wind | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 night | punct |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | aux |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 found | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 plucked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plucked | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 plucked | nsubj |
| 21 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rod | det |
| 23 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 rod | amod |
| 24 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plucked | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 smote | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 smote | cc |
| 27 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 plucked | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dragon | det |
| 29 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smote | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 became | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 became | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lion | det |
| 33 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 became | nsubj |
| 34 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 35 became | advmod |
| 35 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 prince | det |
| 37 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 became | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 princess | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 princess | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dragon | det |
| 41 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 princess | nsubj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 princess | det |
| 43 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 became | xcomp |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 princess | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | our poor wanderer | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | our poor wanderer not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the night wind | all property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pluck | past | wanderer | the eleventh rod | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | ||||
| 5 | smote | infinitive | wanderer not said here | the dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | become | past | the lion | a prince | forthwith property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | princess | the dragon | again | 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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