Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 36

Then he took the youngest by the hand to lead her away; but the moment he touched her he, too, hung fast, and followed in the procession.

Who acts: leg, moment · What happens: take, lead away, touch, hang, follow · To what, where: youngest, sister, procession

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 (leg, moment), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youngest	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 took	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lead	mark
10	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lead	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 lead	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 touched	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 touched	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touched	nsubj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touched	nsubj
18	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touched	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touched	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
22	too	too	ADV	_	24 hung	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
24	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	parataxis
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 hung	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 followed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 followed	cc
28	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hung	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 procession	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 procession	det
31	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 followed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	leg	the youngest		then	by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Theme
2	lead away	to-infinitive	leg not said here	sister			away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	touch	past	the moment	sister				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
4	hang	participle					fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	follow	participle			the procession			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in procession=Location

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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