Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 80
When he got into the room, the king’s daughter said: ‘Take your cap off, it is not seemly to keep it on in my presence.’
Who acts: boy, daughter, it · What happens: get, say, take off, not be, keep on · To what, where: room, cap, presence · 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 (boy, daughter, it), 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Take | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Take | punct |
| 15 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cap | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Take | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 Take | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seemly | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seemly | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 seemly | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 seemly | advmod |
| 23 | seemly | seemly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Take | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 keep | mark |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seemly | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 keep | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 keep | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 presence | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 presence | nmod:poss |
| 30 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keep | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Take | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | boy | the room | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take off | infinitive | your cap | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | it | seemly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep on | to-infinitive | cap | my presence | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in presence=Location |
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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