Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 178
So the silly girl cut her big toe off, and squeezed the shoe on, and went to the king's son.
Who acts: silly girl · What happens: cut off, squeeze on, go · To what, where: big toe, shoe
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 (silly 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 cut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | nsubj |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 toe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 toe | amod |
| 8 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 squeezed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 squeezed | cc |
| 12 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoe | det |
| 14 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 squeezed | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 squeezed | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 king | case |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | the silly girl | toe's big toe | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector toe=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | squeeze on | past | the silly girl not said here | the shoe | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the silly girl not said here | to the king's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial_Location |
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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