Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 49
The King took the beautiful maiden upon his horse, and rode to his castle, where the wedding was celebrated with great splendor and she became Queen, and they lived together a long time; while the Fawn was taken care of and played about the castle garden.
Who acts: King, horse, drops · What happens: take, ride, celebrate, become, live together, play · To what, where: castle, wedding, Fawn
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, horse, drops), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | xcomp |
| 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 | 6 maiden | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 castle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 celebrated | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 celebrated | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wedding | det |
| 19 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 21 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 castle | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 splendor | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 splendor | amod |
| 24 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 celebrated | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 became | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 became | nsubj |
| 27 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rode | conj |
| 28 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 became | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lived | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 lived | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 lived | nsubj |
| 32 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 32 lived | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 35 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 time | amod |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 taken | punct |
| 38 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 42 taken | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Fawn | det |
| 40 | Fawn | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 taken | aux:pass |
| 42 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 43 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 taken | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 taken | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 played | cc |
| 46 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 taken | conj |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 50 garden | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 garden | det |
| 49 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 garden | compound |
| 50 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 played | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the King | maiden property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | King's castle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | with great splendor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | past | horse | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | live together | past | drops = drop | time | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | take | past · passive | the Fawn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination | |||||
| 7 | play | past | about the castle garden | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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