Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 30

But just as the wedding was going to be solemnized, old Mr Fox stirred under the bench, and cudgelled all the rabble, and drove them and Mrs Fox out of the house.

Who acts: wedding · What happens: go, solemnize, stir, cudgell, drive · To what, where: old Mr, bench, rabble, gates, house

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 going	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wedding	det
5	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 stirred	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 solemnized	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 solemnized	aux:pass
10	solemnized	solemnize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 going	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Mr	punct
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Mr	amod
13	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 solemnized	obj
14	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Mr	flat
15	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 bench	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bench	det
18	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stirred	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cudgelled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cudgelled	cc
21	cudgelled	cudgell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stirred	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 rabble	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rabble	det
24	rabble	rabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cudgelled	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drove	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drove	cc
27	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stirred	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drove	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Fox	cc
30	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Fox	compound
31	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 them	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 house	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 house	det
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drove	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the wedding			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	solemnize	to-infinitive · passive	the wedding not said here	old Mr		tree rules
3	stir	past			the bench	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bench=Location
4	cudgell	participle		all rabble		tree rules
5	drive	past		gates = gate	the house	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out house=Trajectory

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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