Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 63

Now it happened that the king of that land held a feast, which was to last three days; and out of those who came to it his son was to choose a bride for himself.

Who acts: it, king, feast, son · What happens: happen, hold, be, come · To what, where: feast, those

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, king, feast, son), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 held	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod
10	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feast	det
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 last	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 last	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 last	mark
17	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 feast	acl:relcl
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 days	nummod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 last	obl:unmarked
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
22	out	out	ADP	_	24 those	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 those	case
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 came	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	obl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 choose	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 choose	cop
32	to	to	PART	_	33 choose	mark
33	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 came	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bride	det
35	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 choose	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 choose	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it				now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past	the king of that land	a feast					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
3	is	past	a feast	a feast not said here			day	last property	tree rules
4	come	past			feast	those			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out that=Initial_Location to it=Destination
5	is	past	king's son					for king; choose 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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