Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 104

At length the last day of the seven years approached, and Bearskin went and sat down again on the heath beneath the circle of trees.

Who acts: Bearskin · What happens: approach, go, sit down · To what, where: length, heath

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bearskin), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 approached	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 approached	obl:unmarked
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 years	det
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 day	nmod
10	approached	approach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
13	Bearskin	Bearskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 approached	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 sat	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 heath	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heath	det
21	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
22	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	24 circle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 circle	det
24	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 trees	case
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 circle	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	participle		length	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Bearskin				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	past	Bearskin not said here	the heath	again	beneath the circle of trees	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heath=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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