Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 54
She went on for a long, long way, till at length she came to the castle whither the princess had carried the prince; and there was a feast got ready, and she heard that the wedding was about to be held.
Who acts: princess, feast, wedding · What happens: go on, come, carry, be, hear, hold · To what, where: castle, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, feast, wedding), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 carried | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 carried | aux |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 castle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carried | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 was | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 was | cc |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 was | expl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 got | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 feast | det |
| 31 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 33 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 got | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 heard | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 heard | cc |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 heard | nsubj |
| 37 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 about | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wedding | det |
| 40 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 about | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 about | cop |
| 42 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 heard | ccomp |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 held | mark |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 held | aux:pass |
| 45 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 about | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | princess | for a long long way | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | princess | the castle | till length | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the princess | whither property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary prince=Value | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a feast | get, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | princess | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the wedding | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hold | to-infinitive · passive | the wedding not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/54/