Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 79

Now they went into the castle, and there stood a dish in the hall, and the splendid bridal shirt lay in it, and seemed nothing else than gold and silver.

Who acts: crows, splendid bridal shirt · What happens: go, stand, lie, seem · To what, where: castle, dish, hall, nothing

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crows, splendid bridal shirt), 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 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stood	cc
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stood	advmod
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dish	det
12	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hall	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shirt	det
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shirt	amod
20	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shirt	amod
21	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	nsubj
22	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lay	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seemed	cc
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 seemed	obj
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 nothing	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 gold	case
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nothing	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 silver	cc
33	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gold	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	crows = crow		the castle	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location
2	stand	past	crows = crow not said here	a dish	the hall; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme in hall=Destination
3	lie	past	the splendid bridal shirt		castle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
4	seem	past		nothing			than gold and silver	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute

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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