Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 58
Then the faithful maiden held her wedding with her sweetheart Roland, and grief came to an end and joy began.
Who acts: faithful maiden, grief, maiden · What happens: hold, come, begin, wed · To what, where: wedding, end
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 (faithful maiden, grief, maiden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 held | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 3 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maiden | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sweetheart | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 11 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sweetheart | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 14 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 joy | cc |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | conj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the faithful maiden | maiden's wedding | then | with maiden's sweetheart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | grief | to a end and joy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | grief not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | wed | maiden | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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