Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 29

The rogues went at once, and soon dug up the shining gold which they quickly pocketed, and then they ran off, leaving behind them their pots and dishes in the house.

Who acts: rogues, counters · What happens: go, dig up, shine, pocket, run off, leave · To what, where: shining gold, pots, house

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogues, counters), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rogues	det
2	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dug	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dug	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 dug	advmod
9	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 dug	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
12	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 gold	amod
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dug	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 pocketed	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pocketed	nsubj
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 pocketed	advmod
17	pocketed	pocket	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gold	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ran	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ran	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 ran	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ran	nsubj
22	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 ran	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leaving	punct
25	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 ran	advcl
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 leaving	obl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pots	nmod:poss
29	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leaving	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dishes	cc
31	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pots	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 house	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 house	det
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leaving	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the rogues					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	dig up	participle	the rogues not said here	the shining gold			soon property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
3	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pocket	past	counters = counter	the shining gold			quickly property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	run off	past	counters = counter			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	gerund	counters = counter not said here	counters's pots and dishes	the house		behind counters = counter	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pot=Theme behind they=Location

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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