Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 73
The bridegroom, who during this recital had grown deadly pale, up and tried to escape, but the guests seized him and held him fast.
Who acts: bridegroom, guests · What happens: grow, try, escape, seize, hold · To what, where: finger
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, guests), 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 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grown | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 grown | nsubj |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 recital | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 recital | det |
| 7 | recital | recital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grown | obl |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grown | aux |
| 9 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 bridegroom | acl:relcl |
| 10 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pale | amod |
| 11 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grown | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 tried | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 escape | mark |
| 17 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seized | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 seized | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 guests | det |
| 21 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seized | nsubj |
| 22 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tried | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seized | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 held | cc |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seized | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 held | obj |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 held | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | the bridegroom | during this recital | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | past | the bridegroom | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bridegroom not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seize | past | the guests | finger | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | past | the guests not said here | finger | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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