Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 37
On the other side of the lake stood a fine illuminated castle, from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets.
What happens: stand, illuminate, come · To what, where: fine illuminated castle, other side, merry music
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 11 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 music | det |
| 18 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 music | amod |
| 19 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 horns | case |
| 21 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 music | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trumpets | cc |
| 23 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 horns | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a fine illuminated castle | the other side of the lake | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on side=Destination | ||||
| 2 | illuminate | participle | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the merry music of horns and trumpets | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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