Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 125
What does the good-for-nothing thing want in the parlor?" said they; and they took away her fine clothes, and gave her an old frock to put on, and laughed at her and turned her into the kitchen.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: do, want, say, take away, give, put on · To what, where: good, parlor, fine clothes, old frock, wife, kitchen · 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 (daughters), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 good | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 does | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 thing | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 for | punct |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 thing | compound |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 want | obl |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 parlor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 parlor | det |
| 13 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 parlor | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 parlor | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 want | parataxis |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | parataxis |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 took | advmod |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 clothes | amod |
| 25 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 took | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gave | cc |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | iobj |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 frock | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 frock | amod |
| 32 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 put | mark |
| 34 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 frock | acl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 put | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 laughed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 laughed | cc |
| 38 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 laughed | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 turned | cc |
| 42 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 laughed | conj |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 turned | obj |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 kitchen | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 kitchen | det |
| 46 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 turned | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | want | present | for nothing thing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | daughters = daughter | the parlor | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in parlor=Manner | ||||
| 4 | take away in a quote | past | daughters = daughter | wife's fine clothes | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 5 | give in a quote | past | daughters = daughter not said here | a old frock | wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient frock=Theme | |||
| 6 | put on in a quote | to-infinitive | daughters = daughter not said here | a old frock not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | laugh in a quote | past | daughters = daughter not said here | at wife | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | turn in a quote | past | daughters = daughter not said here | wife | the kitchen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme into kitchen=Trajectory |
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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