Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 63
So she was handed into the carriage, and driven away with the King; and as soon as they arrived at his castle the wedding was celebrated with great splendor, as the Dwarfs had granted to the maiden.
Who acts: Dwarfs, castle · What happens: hand, drive away, arrive, celebrate, grant · To what, where: mother, carriage, castle, wedding, Dwarfs, maiden
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarfs, castle), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 handed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 handed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 handed | aux:pass |
| 4 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 carriage | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 carriage | det |
| 7 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 driven | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 driven | cc |
| 10 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 handed | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 driven | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 driven | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 soon | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 soon | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 handed | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 arrived | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 arrived | nsubj |
| 21 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 soon | advcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 castle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wedding | det |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 28 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 castle | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 splendor | case |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 splendor | amod |
| 31 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 celebrated | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 granted | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 granted | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Dwarfs | det |
| 35 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 granted | aux |
| 37 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 celebrated | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 maiden | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 maiden | det |
| 40 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 granted | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past · passive | mother | the carriage | soon property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive away | participle | with the King; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | Dwarfs = dwarf | King's castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | celebrate | past · passive | King's castle not said here | the wedding | with great splendor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | grant | past · perfect · passive | the Dwarfs | to the maiden goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to maiden=Goal |
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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