Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 117

She held them together, and they joined each other exactly, and the stranger said, "I am your bridegroom, whom you first saw as Bearskin; but through God's mercy I have regained my human form, and am myself once more."

Who acts: bride, words, stranger, you, my · What happens: hold, join, say, be, see, regain · To what, where: words, each, bridegroom, human form, mercy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bride, words, stranger, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	obj
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 held	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joined	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 joined	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 joined	nsubj
8	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 joined	obj
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 joined	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stranger	det
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bridegroom	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 bridegroom	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bridegroom	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bridegroom	cop
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bridegroom	nmod:poss
22	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 whom	punct
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 bridegroom	acl:relcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 saw	advmod
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 whom	acl:relcl
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 Bearskin	case
29	Bearskin	Bearskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 regained	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 regained	cc
32	through	through	ADP	_	35 mercy	case
33	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 mercy	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 God	case
35	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 regained	obl
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 regained	nsubj
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 regained	aux
38	regained	regain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 held	advcl
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 form	nmod:poss
40	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 form	amod
41	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 regained	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 am	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 am	cc
44	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 held	parataxis
45	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 am	obj
46	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	47 more	advmod
47	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 am	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	bride	words = word		together property	tree rules
2	join	past	words = word	each		exactly property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the stranger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	the stranger = stranger	your bridegroom			tree rules
5	see in a quote	past	you			as Bearskin; first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as bearskin=Attribute
6	regain in a quote	present · perfect	the stranger = stranger	my human form	God's mercy		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
7	form in a quote		my				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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