Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 171
Now when night came she wanted to go home; and the king's son would go with her, but she managed to slip away from him, though in such a hurry that she dropped her left golden slipper upon the stairs.
Who acts: night, lady, son · What happens: come, want, go, manage, slip away, drop · To what, where: left golden slipper, stairs
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 (night, lady, son), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 managed | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 managed | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 managed | nsubj |
| 23 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 slip | mark |
| 25 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 managed | xcomp |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 slip | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 slip | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hurry | punct |
| 30 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 hurry | mark |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hurry | case |
| 32 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 hurry | det:predet |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hurry | det |
| 34 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slip | obl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 dropped | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 dropped | nsubj |
| 37 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 hurry | advcl |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 slipper | nmod:poss |
| 39 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 slipper | amod |
| 40 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 slipper | amod |
| 41 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dropped | obj |
| 42 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 44 stairs | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 stairs | det |
| 44 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 dropped | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | past | lady | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | lady not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | would | the king's son | with lady | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | manage | past | lady | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | slip away | to-infinitive | lady not said here | from King; in such hurry; away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hurry=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | drop | past | lady | lady's left golden slipper | the stairs | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme upon stair=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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