Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 144
His father and mother came to the wedding, and were in great delight, for they had given up all hope of ever seeing their dear son again.
Who acts: father, hope · What happens: come, be, give up, see · To what, where: wedding, great delight, hope, dear son
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, hope), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mother | cc |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wedding | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 delight | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 delight | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 delight | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 delight | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 delight | amod |
| 14 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 given | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 came | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 given | compound:prt |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 hope | det |
| 22 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 seeing | mark |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 seeing | advmod |
| 25 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 hope | acl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 son | amod |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seeing | obj |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 seeing | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | maiden's father and mother | the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | great delight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give up | past · perfect | father | all hope | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | all hope not said here | father's dear son | ever; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
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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