Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 44
When the young man heard this, he went to her with the goose and all its followers; and as soon as she saw the seven all hanging together, and running about, treading on each other's heels, she could not help bursting into a long and loud laugh.
Who acts: young man, man, princess · What happens: hear, go, see, hang together, run about, tread · To what, where: this, princess, all, heels
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 (young man, man, princess), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 goose | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goose | det |
| 14 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followers | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 followers | det:predet |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 followers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 goose | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saw | cc |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 saw | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 saw | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 seven | det |
| 27 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 all | nsubj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 saw | obj |
| 29 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 all | acl |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 29 hanging | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 running | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 running | cc |
| 33 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 saw | advcl |
| 34 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 running | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 treading | punct |
| 36 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 running | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 heels | case |
| 38 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 other | det |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 heels | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 other | case |
| 41 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 treading | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 help | punct |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 help | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 help | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 help | advmod |
| 46 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | conj |
| 47 | bursting | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 help | xcomp |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 laugh | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 laugh | det |
| 50 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 laugh | amod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 loud | cc |
| 52 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 long | conj |
| 53 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 bursting | ccomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the young man | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | man | princess | with the goose and world's followers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | past | princess | all | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hang together | gerund | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run about | gerund | princess not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tread | gerund | princess not said here | each other's heels | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | not help | could | princess | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | burst not said to happen | gerund | princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | laugh | present | princess not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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