Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 9
The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together.
What happens: bring, call together · To what, where: golden feather, king, council
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: 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 | 3 feather | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feather | amod |
| 3 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morning | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 called | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 council | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 council | det |
| 16 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 called | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the golden feather | the king | morning | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | call together speech: assert | past · passive | all council | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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