Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 64
Then poor Lily was led away, and forced to give up the golden dress; and when she saw that there was no help for her, she went out into a meadow, and sat herself down and wept.
Who acts: Lily, help · What happens: lead away, force, give up, see, be, go out · To what, where: poor Lily, golden dress, meadow, help · 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 (Lily, help), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 poor | advmod |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lily | amod |
| 3 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 led | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | aux:pass |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 led | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forced | cc |
| 9 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 led | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forced | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 give | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dress | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dress | amod |
| 15 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 was | mark |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 help | det |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 help | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 meadow | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 meadow | det |
| 34 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sat | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sat | cc |
| 37 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | parataxis |
| 38 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 sat | obj |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 37 sat | compound:prt |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 wept | cc |
| 41 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sat | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead away | past · passive | poor Lily | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | give up | to-infinitive | the golden dress | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Source | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Lily | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | past | no help for Lily | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go out | past | help | a meadow | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | sit down | past | help | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | weep | past | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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