Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 184

But the king came up to her, and held out his hand and danced with her; and he thought in his heart, ‘I never saw any one half so beautiful.’

Who acts: king, I · What happens: come up, hold out, dance, think, not see · To what, where: beauty, hand, heart, one half

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 (king, I), 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	_	4 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 held	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 held	cc
10	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 held	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 danced	cc
15	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 held	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 danced	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 heart	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thought	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 saw	advmod
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	conj
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 half	det
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 half	nummod
32	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 saw	obj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 beautiful	advmod
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 saw	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the king		beauty			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
2	hold out	past		king's hand				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	dance	past					with beauty	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	king			king's heart		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not see	past	I	any one half			beautiful property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus

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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