Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 31

At last he arrived in Rome, where the Pope had just died, and there was great doubt among the cardinals as to whom they should appoint as his successor.

Who acts: country, Pope, great doubt, cardinals · What happens: arrive, die, be, appoint · To what, where: last, cardinals

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, Pope, great doubt, cardinals), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Rome	case
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 died	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pope	det
10	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 died	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 died	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 died	advmod
13	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Rome	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 doubt	amod
19	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 cardinals	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cardinals	det
22	cardinals	cardinal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 was	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 appoint	mark
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 appoint	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 appoint	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 appoint	aux
28	appoint	appoint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cardinals	acl
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 successor	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 successor	nmod:poss
31	successor	successor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appoint	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	country		last	in Rome	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past · perfect	the Pope				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	be	past	great doubt		the cardinals; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among cardinal=Location
4	appoint	should	cardinals = cardinal	the cardinals		as country's successor	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent whom=Theme as successor=Attribute

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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