Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 177
‘Ah! pretty princess!’ thought she, ‘what will now become of thee?’
Who acts: pretty princess · What happens: think, become · To what, where: poultry · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pretty 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 princess | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 princess | amod |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 become | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 become | advmod |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thee | case |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 become | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | pretty princess | poultry | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | future | now | of thee | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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