Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 71
Then there was great rejoicing made; but the horse would not eat, the bird would not sing, and the princess wept.
Who acts: princess, horse, bird · What happens: rejoice, make, not eat, not sing, be
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, horse, bird), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wept | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 was | xcomp |
| 5 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 great | advcl |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rejoicing | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 eat | advmod |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 was | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sing | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sing | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sing | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 sing | advmod |
| 19 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 eat | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wept | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wept | nsubj |
| 24 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | gerund | the princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | the princess not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | not eat | would | the horse | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not sing speech: express | would | the bird | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the princess | weep property | tree rules |
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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