Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 55

‘Heaven aid me now!’ said she; and she took the casket that the sun had given her, and found that within it lay a dress as dazzling as the sun itself.

Who acts: Heaven, sun · What happens: aid, say, take, give, find, lie · To what, where: me, casket, sun, Heaven, dress · 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 (Heaven, sun), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 aid	punct
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 aid	nsubj
3	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 aid	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 aid	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 aid	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 aid	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	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	8 said	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 casket	det
15	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 given	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 took	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 lay	mark
26	within	within	ADP	_	28 lay	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dress	det
30	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obj
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 dazzling	case
32	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 sun	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun	det
35	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
36	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	35 sun	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	aid	infinitive	Heaven		me	now		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	Heaven					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	past	Heaven	the casket				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent casket=Theme
4	give	past · perfect · passive		the sun	Heaven			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
5	find	past	Heaven not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	lie	past	sun	a dress			as dazzling; as the sun sun	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=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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