Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 37
As they were now set free, Roland said: ‘Now I will go to my father and arrange for the wedding.’
Who acts: Roland, I · What happens: set, say, go, arrange · To what, where: thorns · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, I), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 set | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 8 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 go | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arrange | cc |
| 20 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 wedding | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wedding | det |
| 23 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrange | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | thorns = thorn | now | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | future | I | now | to my father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | arrange | infinitive | I not said here | for the wedding | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wedding=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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