Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 23
He took it up, and went on to an inn, where he proposed sleep for the night.
Who acts: Dummerly · What happens: take up, go on, propose · To what, where: tree, sleep
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 (Dummerly), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 inn | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 inn | det |
| 11 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 proposed | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 proposed | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 proposed | nsubj |
| 15 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proposed | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proposed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Dummerly | tree | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | to a inn | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | propose | past | Dummerly | sleep | night | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme |
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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