Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 135
Now it happened that the king of the land held a feast which was to last three days, and out of those who came to it his son was to choose a bride for himself; and Cinderella's two sisters were asked to come.
Who acts: it, king, feast, son, two sisters · What happens: happen, hold, be, come, ask · To what, where: feast, way, those, two sisters
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, king, feast, son), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 held | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 feast | det |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 last | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 last | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 last | mark |
| 16 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 feast | acl:relcl |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 last | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 those | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 those | case |
| 23 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 came | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | obl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 choose | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 choose | cop |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 choose | mark |
| 32 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bride | det |
| 34 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 choose | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 himself | case |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 choose | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 asked | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 asked | cc |
| 39 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Cinderella | case |
| 41 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 sisters | nummod |
| 42 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 asked | aux:pass |
| 44 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 come | mark |
| 46 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 asked | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the king of the land | a feast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a feast | a feast not said here | day | last property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | come | past | way | those | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out that=Initial_Location to it=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is | past | King's son | for King; choose property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | Cinderella's two sisters | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cinderella's two sisters not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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