Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 53
Thus the unhappy traveller was again forsaken and forlorn; but she took heart and said, ‘As far as the wind blows, and so long as the cock crows, I will journey on, till I find him once again.’
Who acts: princess, wind, I · What happens: forsake, take, say, blow, find · To what, where: unhappy traveller, heart, journey, 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 (princess, wind, I), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 forsaken | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 traveller | det |
| 3 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 traveller | amod |
| 4 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forsaken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forsaken | aux:pass |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 forsaken | advmod |
| 7 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forlorn | cc |
| 9 | forlorn | forlorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forsaken | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forsaken | parataxis |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 far | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 far | punct |
| 19 | As | as | ADV | _ | 20 far | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 said | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 blows | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blows | nsubj |
| 24 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 far | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 long | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 long | cc |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 took | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 crows | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 crows | det |
| 31 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 crows | compound |
| 32 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 long | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 journey | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 journey | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 journey | aux |
| 36 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 journey | case |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 find | punct |
| 39 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 41 find | mark |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 find | nsubj |
| 41 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 find | obj |
| 43 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 44 again | advmod |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 find | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forsaken | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 forsaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | past · passive | the unhappy traveller | again | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | princess | heart | journey | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heart=Theme on journey=Destination | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | princess not said here | far property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | blow | present | the wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | find | present | I | prince | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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