Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 58
And again the princess was compelled to do servant’s work until cock-crow.
Who acts: servant · What happens: compel, do, work · To what, where: princess, work
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | _ | 6 compelled | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 princess | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compelled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 compelled | aux:pass |
| 6 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 compelled | xcomp |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 servant | case |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 12 | until | until | ADP | _ | 15 crow | case |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crow | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cock | punct |
| 15 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 compelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compel | past · passive | the princess | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | servant's work | until cock crow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | work | servant | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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