Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 20
Then he went into the house, and was welcomed kindly; and it was not long before he was so much in love that he thought of nothing else but looking at the lady’s eyes, and doing everything that she wished.
Who acts: huntsman, reason, woman · What happens: go, welcome, not be, be, think, look · To what, where: house, love, everything
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, reason, woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 welcomed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 welcomed | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 10 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 welcomed | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 long | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 long | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 long | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 much | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 much | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 much | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 much | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 love | case |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 much | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 thought | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thought | nsubj |
| 27 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 much | advcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 nothing | case |
| 29 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 thought | obl |
| 30 | else | else | ADV | _ | 29 nothing | advmod |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 looking | cc |
| 32 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 nothing | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lady | det |
| 35 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 lady | case |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 looking | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 doing | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 doing | cc |
| 40 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 41 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 doing | obj |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 wished | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 wished | nsubj |
| 44 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 doing | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | huntsman | the house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | welcome | past · passive | huntsman not said here | kindly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | reason | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | huntsman | love | much property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | huntsman | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | huntsman not said here | at the lady's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eye=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do | gerund | huntsman not said here | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | wish | past | woman | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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