Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 34
In the middle of a field the parson met them; and when he saw the procession, he said, "Are you not ashamed of yourselves, you bold girls, to run after the young man like that over the fields?
Who acts: parson, you · What happens: meet, see, say, not be, girl, run · To what, where: feathers, middle, procession, fields · 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 (parson, you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 parson | det |
| 8 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 met | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 procession | det |
| 17 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ashamed | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ashamed | punct |
| 23 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ashamed | cop |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 ashamed | nsubj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 ashamed | advmod |
| 26 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 yourselves | case |
| 28 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 ashamed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 girls | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 girls | nsubj |
| 31 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 girls | amod |
| 32 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ashamed | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 run | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 run | mark |
| 35 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | conj |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 man | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 man | amod |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 run | obl |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 that | case |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 run | obl |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 fields | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 fields | det |
| 44 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 run | obl |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the parson | feathers = feather | the middle of a field | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | parson | the procession | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | parson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | you | of yourselves; ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | girl in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | run in a quote | to-infinitive | parson not said here | the fields | after the young man | like that | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Trajectory |
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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