Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 68
Then the princess thought to betray her as before, and agreed to what she asked: but when the prince went to his chamber he asked the chamberlain why the wind had whistled so in the night.
Who acts: princess, prince · What happens: think, betray, agree, ask, go, whistle · To what, where: princess, chamber, chamberlain, wind
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 (princess, prince), 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 | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 betray | mark |
| 6 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 betray | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 before | case |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 betray | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 agreed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 agreed | cc |
| 12 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 agreed | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 went | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 chamber | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 25 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 asked | nsubj |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chamberlain | det |
| 29 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 asked | obj |
| 30 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 whistled | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wind | det |
| 32 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 whistled | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 whistled | aux |
| 34 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 asked | advcl |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 whistled | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 night | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 night | det |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 whistled | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the princess | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | betray | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | the princess not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | the prince | prince's chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | prince | the chamberlain | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | whistle | past · perfect · passive | the wind | night | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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