Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 133
But the king’s daughter went up to him and took it off, and then his golden hair fell down over his shoulders, and he was so handsome that all were amazed.
Who acts: daughter, golden hair, hair · What happens: go up, take off, fall down, be · To what, where: king, cap, shoulders
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, golden hair, hair), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 fell | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 fell | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 shoulders | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 24 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fell | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 handsome | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 handsome | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 handsome | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 handsome | cop |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 handsome | advmod |
| 30 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fell | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 amazed | mark |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 amazed | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 amazed | aux:pass |
| 34 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 handsome | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the king's daughter | king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take off | past | the king's daughter not said here | cap | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | king's golden hair | king's shoulders | then | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location | ||
| 4 | is | past | hair | handsome property | tree rules |
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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