Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 187
But her mother squeezed it in till the blood came, and took her to the king's son; and he rode away with her.
Who acts: mother, blood, King · What happens: squeeze in, come, take, ride away · To what, where: foot, bride, son
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 (mother, blood, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11027:667): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 squeezed | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squeezed | nsubj |
| 4 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 squeezed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 squeezed | compound:prt |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blood | det |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 squeezed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 squeezed | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 rode | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rode | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rode | nsubj |
| 23 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 squeezed | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 rode | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rode | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 squeezed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze in | past | bride's mother | foot | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the blood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | bride's mother not said here | bride | the king's son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to son=Destination | |||
| 4 | ride away | past | King | with bride; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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