Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 185
When the dance was at an end she curtsied; and when the king looked round for her, she was gone, no one knew wither.
Who acts: dance, beauty, king, one · What happens: be, curtsy, look round, know · To what, where: end
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 (dance, beauty, king, one), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 end | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dance | det |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 end | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curtsied | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 curtsied | nsubj |
| 9 | curtsied | curtsy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 looked | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 curtsied | conj |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 looked | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gone | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | cop |
| 22 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 curtsied | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | conj |
| 27 | wither | wither | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 knew | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 curtsied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dance | at a end | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curtsy | past | beauty | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look round | past | the king | for beauty; round property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | beauty | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | past | no one | wither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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