Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 52
But no sooner was the princess released from the spell, than she seized the prince by the arm and sprang on to the griffin’s back, and went off carrying the prince away with her.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, release, seize, spring on, go off, carry away · To what, where: princess, spell, prince
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 (princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 seized | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 princess | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 princess | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 princess | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | nsubj |
| 7 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 princess | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 spell | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spell | det |
| 10 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 released | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 seized | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seized | nsubj |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arm | det |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sprang | cc |
| 21 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 sprang | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 26 ’s | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 griffin | det |
| 25 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ’s | nsubj |
| 26 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sprang | advcl |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 ’s | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 went | compound:prt |
| 32 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 went | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 prince | det |
| 34 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carrying | obj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 carrying | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 carrying | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | no princess | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | release | participle | no princess not said here | the spell | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | no princess | the prince | by the arm | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | |||
| 4 | spring on | past | no princess not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go off | past | no princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | carry away | gerund | no princess not said here | the prince | with princess; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
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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