Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 13
So she cried out, ‘The king’s daughter shall, in her fifteenth year, be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead.’
Who acts: queen · What happens: cry out, wound, fall down
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 cried | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shall | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 shall | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shall | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 year | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 year | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fifteenth | fifteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 year | amod |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wounded | punct |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wounded | aux:pass |
| 19 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cried | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 spindle | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 spindle | det |
| 22 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wounded | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fall | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fall | cc |
| 25 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 fall | compound:prt |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fall | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 fall | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | queen | year | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wound | infinitive · passive | queen not said here | by a spindle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | fall down | infinitive | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «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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