Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 114

At length the Soldier asked the father if he would give him one of his daughters to wife, and immediately the two elder sisters arose, and ran to their chambers to dress themselves out in their most becoming clothes, for each thought she should be chosen.

Who acts: Soldier, two elder sisters · What happens: ask, give, arise, run, dress out, become · To what, where: father, length, one, daughters, most becoming clothes, sister

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 (Soldier, two elder sisters), 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	5 asked	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Soldier	det
4	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 give	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 give	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 daughters	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughters	nmod:poss
16	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wife	mark
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughters	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 arose	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 arose	cc
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	26 arose	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sisters	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sisters	nummod
24	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sisters	amod
25	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 arose	nsubj
26	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ran	cc
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 chambers	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 chambers	nmod:poss
32	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ran	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 dress	mark
34	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ran	advcl
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 dress	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	34 dress	compound:prt
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 clothes	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 clothes	nmod:poss
39	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 clothes	amod
40	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 clothes	amod
41	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	34 dress	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 thought	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 thought	case
44	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	45 thought	det
45	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 clothes	conj
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 chosen	nsubj
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 chosen	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 chosen	aux:pass
49	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 thought	acl:relcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Soldier		the father	length		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give a condition, not said to happen	would	soldier	one of soldier's daughters	Father			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme
3	arise	past	the two elder sisters				immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	past	the Soldier not said here				to daughters's chambers result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to chamber=Result
5	dress out	to-infinitive	the Soldier not said here	daughters = daughter		daughters's most becoming clothes and each thought		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
6	become	gerund						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	choose	should · passive		sister				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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