Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 41

But hardly had they touched him, when they, too, joined the ranks, and so made seven, all running after Dummerly and his goose.

Who acts: brothers, all · What happens: have, touch, join, make, run · To what, where: parson, ranks, seven

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 (brothers, all), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 joined	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 joined	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 joined	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 they	punct
11	too	too	ADV	_	13 joined	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 too	punct
13	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 touched	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ranks	det
15	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 joined	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 made	advmod
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 running	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 running	nsubj
23	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 made	advcl
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 Dummerly	case
25	Dummerly	Dummerly	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 running	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 goose	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 goose	nmod:poss
28	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Dummerly	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past				hardly property	tree rules
2	touch	past	brothers = brother	parson			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
3	join	past	brothers = brother	the ranks			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Patient
4	make	participle		seven			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seven=Product
5	run	gerund	all		after Dummerly and parson's goose		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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