Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 86
And the wedding was held, and the merry bells run.
Who acts: merry bells · What happens: hold, run · To what, where: wedding
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 (merry bells), 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 | _ | 5 held | cc |
| 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 run | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bells | det |
| 9 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bells | amod |
| 10 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 run | nsubj |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | the wedding | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | present | the merry bells | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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