Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 3

Then the princess came in, and as she passed by them she had something spiteful to say to every one.

Who acts: princess · What happens: come in, pass, have, say · To what, where: something, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passed	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 passed	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 passed	nsubj
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 passed	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	ccomp
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 had	obj
16	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 something	amod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 one	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the princess			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past	princess				by suitors = suitor	tree rules
3	have	past	princess	something				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	princess not said here	something not said here	every one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient

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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