Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 72
Soon after their wedding was celebrated, and when it was over the Princess told her husband that his Father had forgiven him and desired to see him.
Who acts: castle, dominions · What happens: celebrate, be, forgive, desire, see, wed · To what, where: wedding, husband, Prince
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, dominions), 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 | 6 celebrated | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 celebrated | mark |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 6 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 told | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj:outer |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | cop |
| 12 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 15 told | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 celebrated | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 forgiven | aux |
| 22 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 husband | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 forgiven | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 desired | cc |
| 25 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 desired | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | dominions's wedding | soon property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | castle | Princess's husband | tell property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | forgive | past · perfect · passive | Princess's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | desire | past | castle not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | castle not said here | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | wed | dominions = dominion | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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