Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 84
And now the old king gathered together his court, and asked all his kingdom to come and celebrate the wedding of his son and the princess.
Who acts: old king, kingdom · What happens: gather, ask, come, celebrate, wed · To what, where: court, kingdom, wedding, son
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, kingdom), 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 | _ | 6 gathered | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 gathered | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | nsubj |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 gathered | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 court | nmod:poss |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gathered | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 kingdom | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 celebrate | cc |
| 19 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wedding | det |
| 21 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 celebrate | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 son | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wedding | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 princess | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 princess | det |
| 27 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the old king | king's court | now | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old king not said here | king's kingdom | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent kingdom=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's kingdom not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | celebrate | infinitive | king's kingdom not said here | the wedding of king's son and the princess | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wed | king's son and the princess | nom wedding «event 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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