Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 73
The feast was grand; they danced and sang; all were merry; and I only wish that you and I had been of the party.
Who acts: feast, chamberlains, all, I · What happens: be, dance, sing, wish
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 (feast, chamberlains, all, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 feast | det |
| 2 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grand | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grand | cop |
| 4 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 danced | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 danced | nsubj |
| 7 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grand | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sang | cc |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 danced | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 merry | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 merry | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 merry | cop |
| 13 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grand | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wish | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 wish | advmod |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grand | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 party | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 party | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 party | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 party | cop |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 party | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 party | det |
| 27 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wish | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | grand property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | chamberlains = chamberlain | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | chamberlains = chamberlain not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all | merry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish | present | I | that you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | is | past · perfect | I | of the party | tree rules |
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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