Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 121

The wife of a rich man fell sick: and when she felt that her end drew nigh, she called her only daughter to her bedside, and said, "Always be a good girl, and I will look down from heaven and watch over you."

Who acts: wife, end · What happens: fall, feel, draw, call, say, be · To what, where: wife, bedside, good girl · 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 (wife, end), 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 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	nmod
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 felt	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 felt	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 drew	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 end	nmod:poss
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drew	nsubj
17	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	advcl
18	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	17 drew	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	obj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 daughter	advmod
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 bedside	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bedside	nmod:poss
27	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 girl	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 girl	punct
33	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 girl	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 girl	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 girl	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 girl	amod
37	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 look	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 look	cc
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 look	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 look	aux
42	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fell	parataxis
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 look	compound:prt
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 heaven	case
45	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 look	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 watch	cc
47	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 look	conj
48	over	over	ADP	_	49 you	case
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 watch	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the wife of a rich man			sick property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	feel	past	wife				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	draw	past	wife's end			nigh property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call	past	end	wife	wife's bedside		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to bedside=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past	wife not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	infinitive		a good girl		always property	tree rules
7	look down in a quote	future	wife			from heaven	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from heaven=Theme
8	watch in a quote	infinitive	wife not said here			over you	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over you=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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