Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 60
When evening came, and the prince had fallen asleep, she was led into his chamber, and she sat herself down at his feet, and said: ‘I have followed thee seven years.
Who acts: evening, prince, princess · What happens: come, fall, lead, sit down, say, follow · To what, where: princess, chamber, feet, I · 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 (evening, prince, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fallen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fallen | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fallen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fallen | aux |
| 9 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fallen | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 led | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 led | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 led | aux:pass |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 chamber | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 17 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 sat | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sat | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 followed | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 followed | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 followed | aux |
| 34 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 said | ccomp |
| 35 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 followed | obj |
| 36 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 years | nummod |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | the prince | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past · passive | princess | prince's chamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into chamber=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | princess | princess | prince's feet | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | follow | present · perfect · passive | I | year | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme thou=Attribute |
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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