Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 205
Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but howsoever much the young king loved his wife, and however happy he was, he still said always: ‘If I could but shudder--if I could but shudder.’
Who acts: wedding, young king, king · What happens: bring up, celebrate, love, be, say · To what, where: gold, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, young king, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gold | det |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 brought | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 celebrated | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wedding | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 celebrated | nsubj |
| 10 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brought | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 loved | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 loved | cc |
| 13 | howsoever | howsoever | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 loved | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 king | amod |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 loved | nsubj |
| 18 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 loved | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happy | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 happy | cc |
| 23 | however | however | ADV | _ | 24 happy | advmod |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 loved | parataxis |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 happy | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 said | advmod |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 loved | parataxis |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 30 said | advmod |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 could | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 could | punct |
| 34 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 could | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 could | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | ccomp |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 shudder | cc |
| 38 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 could | conj |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 could | punct |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 could | mark |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 could | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | ccomp |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 shudder | cc |
| 44 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 could | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past · passive | the gold | then | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | celebrate | participle | the wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | love | past | the young king | king's wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | be | past | king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | king | still | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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