Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 56
So she put it on, and went into the palace, and all the people gazed upon her; and the dress pleased the bride so much that she asked whether it was to be sold.
Who acts: Heaven, people, dress · What happens: put on, go, gaze, bride, ask, sell · To what, where: dress, palace · 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, people, dress), 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 | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 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 put | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gazed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gazed | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 people | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gazed | nsubj |
| 17 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gazed | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 bride | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bride | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dress | det |
| 23 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bride | nsubj |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bride | amod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bride | det |
| 26 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 asked | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 asked | nsubj |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | advcl |
| 32 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 37 sold | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sold | aux:pass |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 sold | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 sold | aux:pass |
| 37 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 asked | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on | past | Heaven | dress | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Heaven not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | all people | upon Heaven | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bride | the dress | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Heaven | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sell not said to happen | past · passive | dress | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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