Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 178

But it happened one day that a feast was to be held in the king’s castle, so she said to the cook, ‘May I go up a little while and see what is going on?

Who acts: it, princess, I · What happens: happen, hold, say, go up, see, go on · To what, where: feast, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (it, princess, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 happened	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl:unmarked
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 held	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 feast	det
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 held	aux:pass
10	to	to	PART	_	12 held	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 held	aux:pass
12	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happened	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 castle	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 cook	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cook	det
24	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
27	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 go	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 while	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 while	amod
33	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl:unmarked
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 see	cc
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	conj
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 going	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 going	aux
38	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 see	ccomp
39	on	on	ADP	_	38 going	compound:prt
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past · passive		a feast	the king's castle			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in castle=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	princess				to the cook	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to cook=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	go up	may	I			while		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	see	infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go on	present · progressive						vn function-105.2.1 «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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