Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 71
Then the chamberlains came and brought her the most beautiful robes; and her father and his whole court were there already, and welcomed her home on her marriage.
Who acts: chamberlains, father, folly · What happens: come, bring, be, welcome, marry · To what, where: beautiful robes, folly, home, marriage
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 (chamberlains, father, folly), 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 | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chamberlains | det |
| 3 | chamberlains | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brought | cc |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 robes | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 robes | amod |
| 11 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 there | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 there | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 there | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 court | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 court | nmod:poss |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 court | amod |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 father | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 there | cop |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | parataxis |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 21 there | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 welcomed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 welcomed | cc |
| 25 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 welcomed | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 marriage | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 30 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 welcomed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the chamberlains | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the chamberlains not said here | the beautiful robes | folly | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination robe=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | folly's father and soldier's whole court | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | welcome | past | the chamberlains not said here | folly's home | folly's marriage | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme on marriage=Location | |||
| 5 | marry | folly | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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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