Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 53

As they sat at the feast, each guest in turn was asked to tell a tale; the bride sat still and did not say a word.

Who acts: bridegroom, guest, bride · What happens: sit, ask, tell, not say · To what, where: feast, guest, turn, tale, word · Speech: someone speaks here

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, guest, bride), 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:pg2591:979): 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 sat	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feast	det
6	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 guest	det
9	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj:pass
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 turn	case
11	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	aux:pass
13	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tale	det
17	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bride	det
20	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	parataxis
22	still	still	ADV	_	21 sat	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 say	cc
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 say	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 say	advmod
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sat	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	bridegroom		the feast		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past · passive		each guest	turn		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	each guest not said here	a tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
4	sit	past	the bride			still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	the bride not said here	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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