Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 174

The eldest went first into the room where the slipper was, and wanted to try it on, and the mother stood by.

Who acts: eldest, mother · What happens: go, want, try on, stand by · To what, where: room

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 (eldest, mother), 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 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 went	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 was	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 slipper	det
10	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 was	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 try	mark
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 try	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	16 try	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stood	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mother	det
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	23 stood	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the eldest		the room	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	try on not said to happen	to-infinitive		room			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	stand by	past	the mother				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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