Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 47

There was once upon a time a young fellow who enlisted for a soldier, and became so brave and courageous that he was always in the front ranks when it rained blue beans.

Who acts: young fellow, Dummerly, it · What happens: enlist, be, rain · To what, where: front, blue beans

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 fellow, Dummerly, it), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 became	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fellow	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellow	amod
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 enlisted	nsubj
11	enlisted	enlist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fellow	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 soldier	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 soldier	det
14	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enlisted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 became	cc
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 brave	advmod
19	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 courageous	cc
21	courageous	courageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 brave	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 ranks	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ranks	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ranks	cop
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 ranks	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 front	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 front	det
28	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ranks	obl
29	ranks	rank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 brave	advcl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 rained	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rained	nsubj
32	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ranks	advcl
33	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 beans	amod
34	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rained	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enlist	past	a young fellow			for a soldier	vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent for soldier=Theme
2	is	past				become, brave property	tree rules
3	is	past	Dummerly		the front	always, rank property	tree rules
4	rain	past	it	blue beans			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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