Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 33

The next morning Dummerly carried off the goose under his arm, and took no heed of the three girls, but went out with them sticking fast behind; and wherever he journeyed, the three were obliged to follow, whether they wished or not, as fast as their legs could carry them.

Who acts: Dummerly, feathers, legs · What happens: carry off, take, go out, stick, journey, oblige · To what, where: goose, arm, heed, three, feathers, three girls

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, feathers, legs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl:unmarked
4	Dummerly	Dummerly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 goose	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goose	det
8	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 arm	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 heed	det
16	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 girls	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girls	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 girls	nummod
20	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heed	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 went	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	obl
27	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 went	advcl
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 behind	advmod
29	behind	behind	ADV	_	27 sticking	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 obliged	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 obliged	cc
32	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	34 journeyed	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 journeyed	nsubj
34	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 obliged	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 journeyed	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 three	det
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 obliged	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 obliged	aux:pass
39	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 carried	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 follow	mark
41	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 obliged	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wished	punct
43	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	45 wished	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 wished	nsubj
45	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 obliged	conj
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 not	cc
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 wished	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 fast	punct
49	as	as	ADV	_	50 fast	advmod
50	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 wished	advmod
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 carry	mark
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 legs	nmod:poss
53	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 carry	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 carry	aux
55	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 fast	advcl
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 carry	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past	Dummerly	the goose	goose's arm	morning		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
2	take	past	Dummerly not said here	no heed of the three girls				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
3	go out	past	Dummerly not said here				with feathers = feather	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
4	stick	gerund	Dummerly not said here				behind property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	journey	past	Dummerly				wherever property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	oblige	past · passive		the three				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	follow	to-infinitive						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wish	past	feathers = feather				fast property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
9	carry	could	feathers's legs	feathers = feather				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
10	heed			the three girls				nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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