Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 45
Then Dummerly claimed her for his bride; the wedding took place, and he was heir to the kingdom, and lived long and happily with his wife.
Who acts: Dummerly, wedding · What happens: claim, take, be, live · To what, where: princess, place, heir
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 (Dummerly, wedding), 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 claimed | advmod |
| 2 | Dummerly | Dummerly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 claimed | nsubj |
| 3 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 claimed | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bride | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 claimed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wedding | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 claimed | conj |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heir | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heir | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heir | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heir | cop |
| 17 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heir | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lived | cc |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lived | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 happily | cc |
| 26 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 23 lived | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 wife | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wife | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | Dummerly | princess | then | for Dummerly's bride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||
| 2 | take | past | the wedding | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | wedding | heir | to the kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 4 | live | past | the wedding not said here | with Dummerly's wife; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=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: «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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