Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 48
When they had brought home the princess to her father, there was great rejoicing; and he said to the four brothers, ‘One of you shall marry her, but you must settle amongst yourselves which it is to be.’
Who acts: rejoicing, you, boat · What happens: bring, say, marry, settle, be · To what, where: stitches, four brothers, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rejoicing, you, boat), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 settle | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 princess | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 princess | acl:relcl |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rejoicing | amod |
| 15 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brothers | det |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 brothers | nummod |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 One | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 One | punct |
| 26 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 brothers | appos |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 marry | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 marry | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 marry | aux |
| 30 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 One | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 marry | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 settle | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 settle | cc |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 settle | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 settle | aux |
| 36 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 37 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 38 yourselves | case |
| 38 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 settle | obl |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 be | obj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 be | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 be | cop |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 be | mark |
| 43 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 settle | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 settle | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 settle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | stitches = stitch | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme princess=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | rejoicing | the four brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | marry | shall | you | princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | settle | must | you | amongst yourselves | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | boat | be 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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