Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 206
After the dance was at an end she managed to slip out, so slyly that the king did not see where she was gone; but she sprang into her little cabin, and made herself into Cat-skin again, and went into the kitchen to cook the soup.
Who acts: dance, king · What happens: be, manage, slip out, not see, spring, make · To what, where: little cabin, dance, Cat skin, kitchen, soup · 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 (dance, king), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 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 managed | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 managed | nsubj |
| 9 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 slip | mark |
| 11 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 managed | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 slip | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slyly | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 slyly | advmod |
| 15 | slyly | slyly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 slip | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slyly | advcl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 gone | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | cop |
| 25 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 see | ccomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 sprang | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 sprang | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sprang | nsubj |
| 29 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 managed | parataxis |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 cabin | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cabin | amod |
| 33 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sprang | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 made | cc |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 managed | parataxis |
| 37 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 made | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 skin | case |
| 39 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 skin | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Cat | punct |
| 41 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obl |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 made | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 went | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 went | cc |
| 45 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 managed | parataxis |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 kitchen | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 kitchen | det |
| 48 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 went | obl |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 cook | mark |
| 50 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 went | advcl |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 soup | det |
| 52 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 cook | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dance | after a end | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | dance | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | slip out | to-infinitive | dance not said here | slyly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | not see | past · do-support | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | dance | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | spring | past | dance | dance's little cabin | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cabin=Destination | ||||
| 7 | make | past | dance | Cat skin | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent herself=Material into skin=Product | |||
| 8 | go | past | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | |||||
| 9 | cook | to-infinitive | the soup | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=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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