Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 133
The wedding was held with great magnificence and small joy, and out of a tailor a king was made.
What happens: hold, make · To what, where: wedding, king
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | aux:pass |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 magnificence | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magnificence | amod |
| 7 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 joy | cc |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joy | amod |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 magnificence | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 tailor | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tailor | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tailor | det |
| 16 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 held | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | the wedding | with great magnificence and small joy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | a king | out a tailor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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