Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 64
Then everybody laughed and jeered at her; and she was so abashed, that she wished herself a thousand feet deep in the earth.
Who acts: everybody, princess · What happens: laugh, jeer, abash, wish · To what, where: princess
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 (everybody, 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 | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 jeered | cc |
| 5 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 jeered | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 abashed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 abashed | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 abashed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 abashed | aux:pass |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 abashed | advmod |
| 13 | abashed | abash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 laughed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wished | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 wished | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 wished | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thousand | det |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 feet | nummod |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wished | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deep | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | everybody | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | jeer | past | everybody not said here | at princess | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | abash | past · passive | princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wish | past | princess | princess | deep obl | 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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