Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 68
He was led forth, and a priest was brought who was to say a mass for his soul.
What happens: lead, bring, be · To what, where: mayor, priest
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | aux:pass |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 led | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 say | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 brought | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mass | det |
| 16 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 soul | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 soul | nmod:poss |
| 19 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mass | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | mayor | forth property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | a priest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | say property | tree rules |
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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