Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 39
Then he ran up, and caught him by the gown, and instantly he was fast too.
Who acts: christening · What happens: run up, catch, be · To what, where: christening
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 (christening), 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 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 caught | cc |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 gown | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gown | det |
| 11 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fast | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fast | cc |
| 14 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fast | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fast | cop |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advmod |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | christening | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | christening not said here | christening | by the gown | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | christening | fast, instantly property | tree rules |
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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