Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 35

Further on he came to a room where a beautiful young lady sat upon a couch; and she welcomed him joyfully, and said, if he would set her free from the spell that bound her, the kingdom should be his, if he would come back in a year and marry her.

Who acts: door, beautiful young lady, lady, spell, kingdom · What happens: come, sit, welcome, say, set, bind · To what, where: room, couch, door, free, lady, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, beautiful young lady, lady, spell), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 sat	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lady	det
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lady	amod
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lady	amod
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	advcl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 couch	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 couch	det
16	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 welcomed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 welcomed	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 welcomed	nsubj
20	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 welcomed	obj
22	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	20 welcomed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 set	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 set	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 set	aux
30	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 free	nmod:poss
32	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 set	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 spell	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 spell	det
35	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 free	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 bound	nsubj
37	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 spell	acl:relcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bound	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 his	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 kingdom	det
41	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 his	nsubj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 his	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 his	cop
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 set	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 come	punct
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 come	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 come	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
49	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 set	conj
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 come	advmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 year	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 year	det
53	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 come	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 marry	cc
55	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 come	conj
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 marry	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	door		a room		further property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	a beautiful young lady		a couch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon couch=Location
3	welcome	past	lady	door			joyfully property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	door not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	set a condition, not said to happen	would	door	lady's free				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result
6	bind	past	the spell	lady				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	is a	should	the kingdom	friend				tree rules
8	come back a condition, not said to happen	would	door			year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	marry	infinitive	door not said here	lady				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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