Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 82
Why then does this enchantment still seem to bind me?’
What happens: do, seem, bind · To what, where: enchantment, 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: 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 does | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 does | advmod |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seem | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 enchantment | det |
| 5 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 seem | advmod |
| 7 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bind | mark |
| 9 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seem | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bind | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 seem | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 seem | xcomp |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | this enchantment | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantment=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | still | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | bind | to-infinitive | me | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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