Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 40

As the five were thus trudging along, one after another, they met two laborers with their mattocks coming from work; and the parson called out to them to set him free.

Who acts: five, brothers, mattocks · What happens: trudge, meet, come, call out, set · To what, where: one, two laborers, work, parson, brothers

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 (five, brothers, mattocks), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 trudging	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 five	det
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 trudging	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trudging	aux
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 trudging	advmod
6	trudging	trudge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 met	advcl
7	along	along	ADV	_	6 trudging	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 trudging	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 another	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trudging	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 laborers	nummod
16	laborers	laborer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 met	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 mattocks	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mattocks	nmod:poss
19	mattocks	mattock	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laborers	nmod
20	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mattocks	acl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 work	case
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 called	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 parson	det
26	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	nsubj:pass
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 met	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 called	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 set	mark
32	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 called	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 set	obj
34	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 set	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trudge	past · progressive	the five	one			after another	along, thus property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory
2	meet	past	brothers = brother	two laborers				with brothers's mattocks	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent laborer=Theme with mattock=Instrument
3	come	gerund	brothers's mattocks not said here			work			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial_Location
4	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		the parson	brothers = brother				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient
5	set	to-infinitive		parson				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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