Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 28
At last came the third, and desired a feather; but the other two cried out, "Keep away! for heaven's sake, keep away!"
What happens: come, desire, cry out, keep away · To what, where: third, last, feather · 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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | obl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 third | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 came | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 desired | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 desired | cc |
| 8 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feather | det |
| 10 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 desired | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 two | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 two | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 two | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 two | amod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 came | obl |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 two | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 cried | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Keep | punct |
| 20 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 Keep | advmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Keep | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 sake | case |
| 24 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sake | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 heaven | case |
| 26 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Keep | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 keep | punct |
| 28 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Keep | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 keep | advmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 two | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the third | last | the other two obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location third=Theme | |||
| 2 | desire | past | a feather | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feather=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | keep away in a quote | infinitive | for heaven's sake; away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | keep away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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