Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 28
Then the king’s daughter thanked him, and said to her maidens: ‘Show some strength, and step firmly on the peas.’
Who acts: daughter · What happens: thank, say, show, step · To what, where: king, strength, peas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | 6 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thanked | nsubj |
| 6 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thanked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thanked | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 maidens | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 13 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Show | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Show | punct |
| 16 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 strength | det |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Show | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 step | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 step | cc |
| 21 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Show | parataxis |
| 22 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 21 step | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 peas | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 peas | det |
| 25 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 step | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Show | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the king's daughter | king | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king's daughter not said here | to daughter's maidens | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to maiden=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | show | infinitive | some strength | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | step | infinitive | the peas | firmly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pea=Trajectory |
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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