Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 212
Then she put on her dress which sparkled like the stars, and went into the ball-room in it; and the king danced with her again, and thought she had never looked so beautiful as she did then.
Who acts: dance, dress, king · What happens: put, sparkle, go, dance, think, not look · To what, where: dress, ball room · 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, dress, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 dress | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sparkled | nsubj |
| 8 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dress | acl:relcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 stars | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stars | det |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sparkled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 room | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ball | punct |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 room | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 danced | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 danced | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 danced | nsubj |
| 26 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 danced | obl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 danced | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thought | cc |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 looked | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 looked | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 looked | advmod |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 beautiful | advmod |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 looked | xcomp |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 did | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 did | nsubj |
| 41 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 beautiful | advcl |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 did | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | dance | dance's dress | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | |||
| 2 | sparkle | past | dance's dress | like the stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | dance not said here | the ball room in room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | dance | past | the king | again | with dance | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | dance not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not look | past · perfect | dance | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | do | past | dance | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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