Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 52
The bridegroom arrived and also a large company of guests, for the miller had taken care to invite all his friends and relations.
Who acts: bridegroom, miller · What happens: arrive, take, invite · To what, where: care, friends
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 (bridegroom, miller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:978): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 company | cc |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 company | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 company | amod |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bridegroom | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 guests | case |
| 10 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 company | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taken | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 taken | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 miller | det |
| 14 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 arrived | advcl |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 invite | mark |
| 19 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 taken | xcomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 friends | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friends | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 invite | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 relations | cc |
| 24 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 friends | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the bridegroom and a large company of guests | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | the miller | care | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | invite | to-infinitive | the miller not said here | cask's friends and relations | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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