Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 80
Now the old Soldier had a compassionate heart, so he opened the door and saw an old man weeping violently and wringing his hands.
Who acts: old Soldier, soldier, old man · What happens: have, open, see, weep, wring · To what, where: compassionate heart, door, old man, hands
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 (old Soldier, soldier, old man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Soldier | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Soldier | amod |
| 4 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 7 | compassionate | compassionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 opened | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 man | acl |
| 21 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 20 weeping | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wringing | cc |
| 23 | wringing | wring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 weeping | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wringing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old Soldier | a compassionate heart | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | open | past | soldier | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | soldier not said here | a old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | weep | gerund | a old man not said here | violently property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wring | gerund | a old man not said here | soldier's hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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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