Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 40
Twelve long years have I waited here for the fairy to bring you hither as she promised, for you alone can save me.
Who acts: I, fairy, snake, you · What happens: wait, bring, promise, save · To what, where: you, me
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 (I, fairy, snake, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:2128): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 waited | nsubj |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 waited | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairy | det |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 waited | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 promised | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 promised | nsubj |
| 17 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 save | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 save | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 save | nsubj |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 save | advmod |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 save | aux |
| 23 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 waited | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 save | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · perfect | I | here | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the fairy | you | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | snake | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | save | can | you | me | alone property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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