Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 37

Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! hollo! your reverence! whither so fast!

Who acts: clerk, Hollo, your · What happens: come, see, run, be, say, reverence · To what, where: master · 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 (clerk, Hollo, your), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
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 clerk	det
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 parson	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 parson	det
15	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 master	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 running	punct
17	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	advcl
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 girls	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girls	det
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 girls	nummod
21	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 running	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 surprised	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 surprised	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 surprised	cop
25	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	26 surprised	advmod
26	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Hollo	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Hollo	punct
32	Hollo	Hollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 Hollo	punct
34	hollo	hollo	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Hollo	conj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 reverence	punct
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 reverence	nmod:poss
37	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Hollo	appos
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 reverence	punct
39	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	41 fast	advmod
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 fast	advmod
41	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 said	advmod
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the clerk			presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	clerk	clerk's master and the parson			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus
3	run	gerund	clerk not said here		after the three girls		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	clerk			greatly, surprised property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Hollo and hollo			fast property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	reverence in a quote		your				nom reverence «feeling transitive»: poss=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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