Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 33

Then the wedding was held with great pomp, but as the train came from the church, and passed with the torches before the hall, a very small ray of light fell upon the prince.

Who acts: train, small ray · What happens: hold, come, pass, fall, ray · To what, where: wedding, church, hall, light

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 (train, small ray), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 held	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wedding	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 held	aux:pass
5	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 pomp	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pomp	amod
8	pomp	pomp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 passed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 passed	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 train	det
13	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 passed	advcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 church	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 church	det
17	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 passed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 passed	cc
20	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 held	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 torches	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 torches	det
23	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 passed	obl
24	before	before	ADP	_	26 hall	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hall	det
26	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ray	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ray	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 small	advmod
30	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ray	amod
31	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 light	case
33	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ray	nmod
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 passed	parataxis
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 prince	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 prince	det
37	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · passive		the wedding		then	with great pomp	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past	the train		the church			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial_Location
3	pass	participle			the hall		with the torches	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before hall=Location
4	fall	past	a small ray of light				upon the prince	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon prince=Location
5	ray			light				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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