Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 153
So messengers were sent far and wide, to seek for a bride as beautiful as the late queen.
What happens: send, seek · To what, where: messengers
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: 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 | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sent | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wide | cc |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 far | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seek | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 seek | mark |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bride | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seek | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bride | amod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 queen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 18 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 queen | amod |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beautiful | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | messengers | far property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | for a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bride=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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