Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 32
They at length agreed that the person should be chosen as pope who should be distinguished by some divine and miraculous token.
Who acts: cardinals, divine token · What happens: agree, choose, distinguish · To what, where: length, person, pope · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cardinals, divine token), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 chosen | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 chosen | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 chosen | aux:pass |
| 10 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 agreed | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 pope | case |
| 12 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chosen | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 distinguished | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 distinguished | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 distinguished | aux:pass |
| 16 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pope | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 token | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 token | det |
| 19 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 token | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 miraculous | cc |
| 21 | miraculous | miraculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 divine | conj |
| 22 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 distinguished | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | cardinals = cardinal | length | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | choose | should · passive | the person | as pope | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | distinguish | should · passive | some divine token | pope | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute subject=Theme |
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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