Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 62

He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appeased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him.

Who acts: luck, queen · What happens: do, soothe, seem, appease, not be, think · To what, where: all, queen, truth, luck

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 (luck, queen), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 did	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 soothe	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 soothe	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 soothe	mark
7	soothe	soothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 all	acl:relcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 soothe	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 she	nmod
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	17 appeased	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 appeased	aux:pass
17	appeased	appease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 seemed	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 truth	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 truth	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 truth	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 truth	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 truth	advmod
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 truth	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 truth	case
25	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thinking	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thinking	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 thinking	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 thinking	advmod
30	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	advcl
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 punish	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 punish	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 punish	aux
34	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 thinking	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 punish	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	luck	all		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	soothe	could	luck	queen		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	seem	past	queen			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	appease	to-infinitive · passive	queen not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	not is	past	queen		truth	tree rules
6	think speech: other	past · progressive	luck not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	punish	should	queen	luck		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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