Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 27
Then the wedding was solemnized with young Mr Fox, and there was much rejoicing and dancing; and if they have not left off, they are dancing still.
Who acts: much rejoicing, rejoicing · What happens: solemnize, be, not leave off, dance · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much rejoicing, rejoicing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 solemnized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 solemnized | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 solemnized | aux:pass |
| 5 | solemnized | solemnize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Fox | case |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Fox | amod |
| 8 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fox | compound |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 solemnized | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 solemnized | parataxis |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rejoicing | amod |
| 15 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dancing | cc |
| 17 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rejoicing | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 dancing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dancing | cc |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 left | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 left | advmod |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 dancing | advcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 left | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dancing | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 dancing | aux |
| 29 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 solemnized | conj |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 dancing | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 solemnized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solemnize | past · passive | the wedding | then | with young Mr Fox | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | much rejoicing and dancing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not leave off a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | rejoicing | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dance | present · progressive | rejoicing | still | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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