Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 26
So she waited till his back was turned, and then caught hold of the goose by the wing; but to her great surprise, there she stuck, for neither hand nor finger could she pull away again.
Who acts: landlord, hand · What happens: wait, turn, catch, stick, pull away, hold · To what, where: back, hold, goose
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 (landlord, hand), 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 waited | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 turned | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | aux:pass |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caught | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 caught | advmod |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 13 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 goose | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goose | det |
| 16 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 wing | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wing | det |
| 19 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 stuck | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 stuck | cc |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 surprise | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 surprise | amod |
| 25 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stuck | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 surprise | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 stuck | expl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stuck | nsubj |
| 29 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pull | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 pull | mark |
| 32 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 hand | det |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pull | nsubj |
| 34 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 35 finger | cc |
| 35 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hand | conj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 pull | aux |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 pull | nsubj |
| 38 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 stuck | conj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 pull | advmod |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 pull | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | landlord | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | Dummerly's back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | landlord not said here | hold of the goose | then | by the wing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||
| 4 | stick | past | landlord | there | to landlord's great surprise | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to surprise=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | pull away | could | neither hand nor finger | again | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | hold | the goose | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | surprise | landlord | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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