Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 23
And when Lily came to the castle, he welcomed her so courteously that she agreed to marry him.
Who acts: Lily, father · What happens: come, welcome, agree, marry · To what, where: castle, Lily, father
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lily, father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 welcomed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 welcomed | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 welcomed | nsubj |
| 10 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 welcomed | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 courteously | advmod |
| 13 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 10 welcomed | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 agreed | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 agreed | nsubj |
| 16 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 welcomed | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 marry | mark |
| 18 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 agreed | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 marry | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Lily | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | welcome | past | father | Lily | courteously property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | Lily | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lily not said here | father | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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