Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 51
The day came that had been fixed for the marriage.
Who acts: day · What happens: come, fix · To what, where: that
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 (day), 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 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fixed | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 fixed | aux:pass |
| 7 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | parataxis |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 marriage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 marriage | det |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fix | past · perfect · passive | that | for the marriage | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for marriage=Beneficiary |
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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