Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 45
Then his heart was so touched that he kissed her, and when she opened her eyes he said: ‘You are mine, and I am yours, and no one in the world can alter that.’
Who acts: king, heart, You, I, one · What happens: touch, kiss, open, say, be, alter · To what, where: heart, eyes, mine, yours, that · 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 (king, heart, You, I), 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 touched | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touched | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 touched | advmod |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 kissed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kissed | nsubj |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touched | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kissed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 opened | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 opened | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kissed | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 mine | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 mine | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 mine | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 mine | cop |
| 24 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 said | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 yours | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 yours | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 yours | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 yours | cop |
| 29 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mine | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 alter | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 alter | cc |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 alter | nsubj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 world | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 world | det |
| 36 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 one | nmod |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 alter | aux |
| 38 | alter | alter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 yours | conj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 alter | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | king's heart | then | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | king | heart | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | past | heart | heart's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | You | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | I | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | alter | can | no one in the world | that | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=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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