Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 183
Everyone made way for her, for nobody knew her, and they thought she could be no less than a king’s daughter.
Who acts: Everyone, nobody, dresses, beauty · What happens: make, know, think, not be · To what, where: way, beauty · 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 (Everyone, nobody, dresses, beauty), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 knew | mark |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 less | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 less | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 less | cop |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 less | advmod |
| 19 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 daughter | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 less | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Everyone | way | for beauty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | know | past | nobody | beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | dresses = dress | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | could | beauty | than a king's daughter; less 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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