Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 39

Now the white snake was an enchanted princess; and she was very glad to see him, and said, ‘Are you at last come to set me free?

Who acts: white snake, snake, you · What happens: enchant, be, see, say, set · To what, where: enchanted princess, man, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white snake, snake, you), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 snake	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snake	amod
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 princess	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 princess	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 princess	det
7	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 princess	amod
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 glad	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 glad	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 glad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glad	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 glad	advmod
14	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 princess	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 glad	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glad	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 glad	punct
23	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 come	cop
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 come	nsubj
25	at	at	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 come	amod
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 princess	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 set	mark
29	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	xcomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 set	obj
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 set	xcomp
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 princess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the white snake	a enchanted princess		tree rules
3	is	past	snake		glad property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	snake not said here	man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	you		come property	tree rules
7	set	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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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