Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 220
And the wedding feast was held, and a merry day it was, as ever was heard of or seen in that country, or indeed in any other.
What happens: hold, hear, see · To what, where: wedding feast, country
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 held | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feast | compound |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 held | aux:pass |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 day | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 was | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 day | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 heard | mark |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux:pass |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 held | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 heard | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 seen | cc |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 heard | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 other | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 other | cc |
| 27 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 30 other | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 other | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 held | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | the wedding feast | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | |||||
| 3 | see | participle | that country | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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