Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 73
Then he hung the bearskin around himself, and went about the world chuckling at his good luck, and buying whatever suited his fancy which money could purchase.
Who acts: soldier, fancy · What happens: hang, go, chuckle, buy, suit, purchase · To what, where: bearskin, good luck, fancy
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 (soldier, fancy), 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 hung | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bearskin | det |
| 5 | bearskin | bearskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obj |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 hung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | chuckling | chuckle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 went | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 luck | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 luck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 luck | amod |
| 18 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chuckling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 suited | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 suited | cc |
| 21 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 suited | nsubj |
| 22 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 suited | nsubj |
| 23 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 suited | obj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 purchase | nsubj |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 purchase | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 purchase | aux |
| 29 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fancy | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | soldier | the bearskin | then | around soldier | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bearskin=Theme around himself=Destination | ||
| 2 | go | past | soldier not said here | about the world | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | chuckle | gerund | soldier not said here | soldier's good luck | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | buy | gerund | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | suit | past | soldier's fancy | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | purchase | could | soldier's fancy | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 7 | fancy | soldier | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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