Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 128
It happened once that her father was going to the fair, and asked his wife's daughters what he should bring to them. "
Who acts: It, father · What happens: happen, go, ask, bring · To what, where: fair, daughters · 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 (It, father), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 fair | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fair | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 18 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asked | obj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 bring | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bring | aux |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | wife's father | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Father's wife's daughters | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring | should | Father | daughters = daughter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme to they=Destination |
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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