Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 18
So words and tears were of no avail; the parson was sent for, and she was married to the fiddler.
Who acts: words · What happens: be, send, marry · To what, where: parson
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 avail | advmod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 avail | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tears | cc |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 avail | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 avail | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 avail | det |
| 8 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 parson | det |
| 11 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | aux:pass |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 avail | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 married | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 married | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 married | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 married | aux:pass |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sent | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 fiddler | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fiddler | det |
| 22 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 married | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 avail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | words and tears | of no avail | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | the parson | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | parson | to the fiddler | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to fiddler=Co-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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