Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 11

However, he took the maiden upon his horse, and the old woman showed him the way, and the King arrived safely at his palace, where the wedding was to be celebrated.

Who acts: King, old woman · What happens: take, show, arrive, celebrate · To what, where: maiden, way, King, palace, wedding

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, old woman), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 showed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 showed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 showed	nsubj
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showed	iobj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 showed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 arrived	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 arrived	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 arrived	nsubj
23	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
24	safely	safely	ADV	_	23 arrived	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 palace	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 palace	nmod:poss
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 arrived	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 celebrated	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 celebrated	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wedding	det
31	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 celebrated	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 celebrated	aux:pass
33	to	to	PART	_	35 celebrated	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 celebrated	aux:pass
35	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 palace	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	King	the maiden			upon King's horse; however property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme
2	show	past	the old woman	the way	King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
3	arrive	past	the King			King's palace	safely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	celebrate	past · passive	the King not said here	the wedding				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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