Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 53
And now the time drew near when Roland’s wedding was to be celebrated, and then, according to an old custom in the country, it was announced that all the girls were to be present at it, and sing in honour of the bridal pair.
Who acts: time, girls · What happens: draw, celebrate, accord, announce, be, sing · To what, where: wedding, honour, bridal pair · 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 (time, girls), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drew | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 drew | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 drew | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 ’s | mark |
| 8 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ’s | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | advcl |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 celebrated | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 14 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ’s | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 custom | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 custom | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 custom | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 custom | punct |
| 19 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 custom | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 according | fixed |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 custom | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 custom | amod |
| 23 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 custom | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 announced | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 announced | aux:pass |
| 30 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 drew | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 present | mark |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 girls | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 girls | det |
| 34 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 present | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 present | cop |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 present | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 present | cop |
| 38 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 announced | ccomp |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 present | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sing | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sing | cc |
| 43 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 honour | case |
| 45 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sing | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 pair | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 pair | det |
| 48 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 pair | amod |
| 49 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 honour | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the time | now | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | announce speech: other | past · passive | wedding | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | all girls | wedding | present property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | sing speech: express | present | the time not said here | honour of the bridal pair | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honour=Location | ||||
| 7 | honour | the bridal pair | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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