Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 77
As Heinel came near his castle he heard the sound of merry music; and the people around told him that his queen was about to marry another husband.
Who acts: Heinel, people, queen · What happens: come, hear, tell, be, marry · To what, where: castle, sound, Heinel, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heinel, people, queen), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 Heinel | case |
| 2 | Heinel | Heinel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 castle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 castle | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 music | case |
| 12 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 music | amod |
| 13 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sound | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 told | nsubj |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 19 told | advmod |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 about | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 queen | nmod:poss |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 about | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 about | cop |
| 25 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 told | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 marry | mark |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 about | xcomp |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 husband | det |
| 29 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marry | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Heinel's castle | as Heinel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near castle=Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Heinel | the sound of merry music | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the people | Heinel | around property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is | past | Heinel's queen | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive | Heinel's queen not said here | another husband | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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