Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 18

So they sat down, and when the lad took out his bread, behold it was turned into a splendid meat pie, and his sour beer became delicious wine!

Who acts: bread, lad, sour beer · What happens: sit down, take out, turn, become · To what, where: bread, beer, splendid meat pie, delicious wine

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 (bread, lad, sour beer), 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	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 took	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 took	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bread	nmod:poss
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
15	behold	behold	INTJ	_	18 turned	discourse
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turned	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	aux:pass
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 took	parataxis
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 pie	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pie	det
21	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pie	amod
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pie	compound
23	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 beer	nmod:poss
27	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beer	amod
28	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
30	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wine	amod
31	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	xcomp
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	bread			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take out	past	the lad	lad's bread		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
3	turn	past · passive		beer	a splendid meat pie	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into pie=Trajectory
4	become	past	lad's sour beer	delicious wine		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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