Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 19
They ate and drank heartily, and when they had finished, the little man said, "As you have a kind heart, and have been willing to share everything with me I will bring good to you.
Who acts: bread, little man, you · What happens: eat, drink, finish, say, have, be · To what, where: kind heart, everything, good, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, little man, you), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drank | cc |
| 4 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 5 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 4 drank | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finished | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 finished | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 finished | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 finished | aux |
| 11 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 ate | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 willing | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 willing | punct |
| 19 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 willing | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 heart | det |
| 23 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 heart | amod |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 willing | cc |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 willing | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 willing | cop |
| 29 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 share | mark |
| 31 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 willing | xcomp |
| 32 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 share | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 share | obl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 bring | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 bring | aux |
| 37 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bring | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 you | case |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 bring | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | bread not said here | heartily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | finish | past · perfect | bread | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the little man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | you | a kind heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present · perfect | willing property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | share in a quote | to-infinitive | everything | with the little man = man | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | bring in a quote | future | the little man = man | good | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent good=Theme to you=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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