Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 30
If they are there," thought she, "I may as well be there too," so she went up to them.
Who acts: feathers, I, last · What happens: be, think, go up · To what, where: feathers · 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 (feathers, I, last), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 there | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 thought | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 she | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | aux |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 16 there | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 she | parataxis |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 there | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 too | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 went | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | feathers = feather | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | may | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go up in a quote | past | last | feathers = feather | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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