Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 47
Thereupon the wedding was celebrated, and the lion was again taken into favour, because, after all, he had told the truth.
Who acts: king · What happens: celebrate, take, tell · To what, where: wedding, lion, favour, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 celebrated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 5 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taken | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 taken | advmod |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 celebrated | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 favour | case |
| 14 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 because | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 told | mark |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 because | punct |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 because | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 because | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 told | aux |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 taken | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 truth | det |
| 25 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 told | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | thereupon property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the lion | favour | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into favour=Destination | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | king | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
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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