Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 35

So when they were alone the king’s daughter said to her eleven girls: ‘Show some constraint, and do not look round at the spinning-wheels.’

Who acts: huntsmen, daughter · What happens: be, say, show, not look round · To what, where: constraint · 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 (huntsmen, 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 alone	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alone	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alone	cop
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 So	fixed
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 girls	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 girls	nmod:poss
13	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 girls	nummod
14	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Show	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Show	punct
17	Show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 constraint	det
19	constraint	constraint	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Show	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 look	cc
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 look	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 look	advmod
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Show	conj
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 look	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	30 wheels	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wheels	det
28	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wheels	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 spinning	punct
30	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 look	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 Show	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 Show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	huntsmen = huntsman		alone property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king's daughter		to daughter's eleven girls	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to girl=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	show	infinitive		some constraint		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent constraint=Recipient
4	not look round	infinitive · do-support			at the spinning wheels; round property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wheel=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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