Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 122
Soon afterwards she shut her eyes and died, and was buried in the garden; and the little girl went every day to her grave and wept, and was always good and kind to all about her.
Who acts: wife, little girl · What happens: shut, die, bury, go, weep, be · To what, where: eyes, garden, grave, wife
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, little girl), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 shut | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 shut | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shut | nsubj |
| 4 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shut | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 died | cc |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shut | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 buried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 buried | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 buried | aux:pass |
| 12 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 died | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buried | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shut | conj |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 grave | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 grave | nmod:poss |
| 26 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wept | cc |
| 28 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 good | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 good | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 good | cop |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 good | advmod |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shut | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 kind | cc |
| 35 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 good | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 37 | all | all | ADV | _ | 39 her | advmod |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 kind | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | wife | wife's eyes | afterwards, soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | die | past | wife not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | wife not said here | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in garden=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the little girl | wife's grave | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | weep | past | the little girl not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | always, good property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | be | wife | tree rules |
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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