Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 213
So whilst he was dancing with her, he put a gold ring on her finger without her seeing it, and ordered that the dance should be kept up a long time.
Who acts: king · What happens: dance, put, see, order, keep up · To what, where: gold ring, finger, room, dance
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| 2 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 5 dancing | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dancing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dancing | aux |
| 5 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 put | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dancing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dancing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ring | det |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ring | compound |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 finger | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 finger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 seeing | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 seeing | nmod:poss |
| 19 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 put | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seeing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ordered | cc |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 kept | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dance | det |
| 26 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 kept | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 kept | aux:pass |
| 29 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ordered | ccomp |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 kept | compound:prt |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 time | amod |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past · progressive | king | with dance | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | past | king | a gold ring | dance's finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | gerund | king not said here | room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | order | past | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | keep up | should · passive | the dance | time | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=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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