Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 81

Bearskin stepped nearer, but the old man jumped up and tried to escape; but when he recognized a human voice he let himself be persuaded, and by kind words and soothings on the part of the old Soldier he at length disclosed the cause of his distress.

Who acts: Bearskin, old man, man, soldier · What happens: step, jump up, try, escape, recognize, let · To what, where: human voice, man, cause, distress

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 (Bearskin, old man, man, soldier), 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	Bearskin	Bearskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stepped	nsubj
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 stepped	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 jumped	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 jumped	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jumped	nsubj
9	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 jumped	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tried	cc
12	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 jumped	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 escape	mark
14	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 recognized	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 recognized	nsubj
19	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 let	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 voice	det
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 voice	amod
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 recognized	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	nsubj
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	conj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 let	obj
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 persuaded	aux:pass
27	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 let	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 words	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 words	cc
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 words	case
31	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 words	amod
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 let	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 soothings	cc
34	soothings	soothing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 words	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 part	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 part	det
37	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 words	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 Soldier	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Soldier	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Soldier	amod
41	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 part	nmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 disclosed	nsubj
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 length	case
44	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 he	nmod
45	disclosed	disclose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 Soldier	acl:relcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 cause	det
47	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 disclosed	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 distress	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 distress	nmod:poss
50	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cause	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	step	past	Bearskin		near property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	jump up	past	the old man			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	past	the old man not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	recognize	past	man	a human voice		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
6	let	past	man	man		tree rules
7	persuade	infinitive · passive	man not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
8	disclose	past	BEARSKIN	the cause of soldier's distress		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cause=Topic
9	cause			soldier's distress		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
10	distress		soldier			nom distress «feeling 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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