Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 66
And she rose up and drove them before her, till the bride saw them from her window, and was so pleased that she came forth and asked her if she would sell the brood.
Who acts: help, bride · What happens: rise up, drive, see, be, come, ask · To what, where: hen, window, help, brood
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 (help, bride), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rose | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rose | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drove | cc |
| 6 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drove | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drove | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 window | nmod:poss |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleased | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pleased | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pleased | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 pleased | advmod |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 saw | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 came | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pleased | advcl |
| 27 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 26 came | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 asked | cc |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 asked | iobj |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 sell | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sell | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 sell | aux |
| 34 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 asked | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 brood | det |
| 36 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sell | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | help | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drive | past | help not said here | hen | before help | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before she=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | the bride | hen | help's window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | the bride not said here | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | past | help | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | help not said here | help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | sell a condition, not said to happen | would | help | the brood | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=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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