Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 3

Not long after a suitor appeared, and as he appeared to be very rich and the miller could see nothing in him with which to find fault, he betrothed his daughter to him.

Who acts: suitor, miller · What happens: appear, be, see, find, betroth · To what, where: nothing, fault, daughter, man

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suitor, miller), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 appeared	advmod
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 appeared	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 suitor	det
5	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 appeared	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 appeared	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 appeared	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 appeared	nsubj
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	15 rich	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 rich	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 rich	advmod
15	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 appeared	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 miller	det
18	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 appeared	conj
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 see	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 see	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	advcl
28	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 betrothed	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 betrothed	nsubj
31	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 daughter	nmod:poss
33	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 betrothed	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 betrothed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a suitor			long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appear	past	suitor				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	suitor not said here			rich property	tree rules
4	see	could	the miller	nothing		in suitor	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	the miller not said here	fault			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic
6	betroth	past	suitor	suitor's daughter	man		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to he=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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