Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 84
Soon after, the wedding was celebrated, and a grand ball was given, and the bride began to dance.
Who acts: bride · What happens: celebrate, give, begin, dance · To what, where: wedding, grand ball
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 (bride), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 celebrated | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 1 Soon | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wedding | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 7 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 11 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ball | amod |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 celebrated | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bride | det |
| 18 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 dance | mark |
| 21 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | soon property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | a grand ball | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the bride | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dance | to-infinitive | the bride not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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: «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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