Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 205
Then she ran to her little cabin, washed herself quickly, and took her dress out which was silvery as the moon, and put it on; and when she went in, looking like a king’s daughter, the king went up to her, and rejoiced at seeing her again, and when the dance began he danced with her.
Who acts: truth, king, dance · What happens: run, wash, take, dress out, be, put on · To what, where: truth, moon
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 (truth, king, dance), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cabin | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cabin | amod |
| 7 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 washed | punct |
| 9 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 washed | obj |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 washed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 took | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 dress | compound:prt |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 silvery | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 silvery | cop |
| 20 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dress | ccomp |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 moon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moon | det |
| 23 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 silvery | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dress | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 put | compound:prt |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 went | advmod |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 looking | punct |
| 36 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 went | advcl |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 daughter | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 king | case |
| 41 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looking | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 went | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 king | det |
| 44 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 went | nsubj |
| 45 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 went | compound:prt |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 her | case |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 went | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 rejoiced | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 rejoiced | cc |
| 51 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 52 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 53 seeing | mark |
| 53 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 51 rejoiced | advcl |
| 54 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 seeing | obj |
| 55 | again | again | ADV | _ | 53 seeing | advmod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 danced | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 danced | cc |
| 58 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 61 began | advmod |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 dance | det |
| 60 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 began | nsubj |
| 61 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 63 danced | advcl |
| 62 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 danced | nsubj |
| 63 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 64 | with | with | ADP | _ | 65 her | case |
| 65 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 danced | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | truth | then | to truth's little cabin result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cabin=Result | |||
| 2 | wash | past | truth not said here | truth | quickly property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | truth not said here | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | dress out | infinitive | truth not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | as the moon; silvery property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | put on | infinitive | truth not said here | moon | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 7 | go in | past | truth | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | look | gerund | truth not said here | like a king's daughter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | go up | past | the king | truth | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 10 | rejoice | participle | truth not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 11 | see | gerund | truth not said here | truth | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 12 | begin | past | the dance | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 13 | dance | past | king | with truth | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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