Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 65
As soon as he had fallen asleep, however, she drew the ring from his finger, and crept softly away, and wished herself and her son at home in their kingdom.
Who acts: luck, queen · What happens: fall, draw, creep away, wish · To what, where: ring, finger, queen, home
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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 drew | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 fallen | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fallen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | aux |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 drew | advcl |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fallen | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fallen | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 fallen | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fallen | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 finger | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 finger | nmod:poss |
| 17 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ring | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crept | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crept | cc |
| 20 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drew | conj |
| 21 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 20 crept | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 crept | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wished | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wished | cc |
| 25 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drew | conj |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 wished | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 son | cc |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 herself | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 home | case |
| 31 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wished | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 kingdom | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 34 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wished | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | luck | asleep, however property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | queen | the ring | luck's finger | soon property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | creep away | past | queen not said here | away, softly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | queen not said here | queen | home | in guards's kingdom | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=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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