Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 63
But the prince all the time slept so soundly, that her voice only passed over him, and seemed like the whistling of the wind among the fir-trees.
Who acts: prince, voice, wind · What happens: sleep, pass, seem, whistle
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 (prince, voice, wind), 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 | _ | 7 slept | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 soundly | advmod |
| 9 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 7 slept | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 passed | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 passed | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 passed | advmod |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slept | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 passed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seemed | cc |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 passed | parataxis |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 whistling | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 whistling | det |
| 23 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seemed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wind | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whistling | nmod |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 31 trees | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 trees | det |
| 29 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 trees | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 fir | punct |
| 31 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 seemed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the prince | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | princess's voice | over prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over he=Location | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | like the whistling of the wind; among the fir trees | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | whistle | the wind | nom whistling «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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