Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 145
And as they were sitting at the marriage-feast, the music suddenly stopped, the doors opened, and a stately king came in with a great retinue.
Who acts: father, music, doors, stately king · What happens: sit, stop, open, come in · To what, where: marriage feast
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, music, doors, stately 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sitting | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 sitting | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 feast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 8 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feast | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 marriage | punct |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 music | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 music | det |
| 13 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feast | appos |
| 14 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 stopped | advmod |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 music | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opened | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 doors | det |
| 18 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 opened | nsubj |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 23 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 king | amod |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opened | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 retinue | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 retinue | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 retinue | amod |
| 30 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | father | the marriage feast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the music not said here | suddenly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come in | past | a stately king | with a great retinue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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