Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 95
Thereupon he took leave, saying, "For three years longer I must wander about; if I come back again, then we will celebrate our wedding; but if I do not, you are free, for I shall be dead.
Who acts: BEARSKIN, we, you, our · What happens: take, leave, say, wander, come back, celebrate · To what, where: wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
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, we, you, our), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wander | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wander | punct |
| 9 | For | for | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 longer | obl |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 wander | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wander | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wander | aux |
| 15 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 wander | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 celebrate | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 celebrate | advmod |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 celebrate | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 celebrate | aux |
| 27 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 celebrate | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 free | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 free | cc |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 do | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 free | advcl |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 do | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 free | nsubj |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 free | cop |
| 39 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 dead | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 dead | case |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 dead | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 dead | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 dead | cop |
| 45 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 free | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | BEARSKIN | thereupon property | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | BEARSKIN not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | BEARSKIN not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wander in a quote | must | BEARSKIN | about, long property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | BEARSKIN | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | celebrate in a quote | future | we | our wedding | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | |||
| 7 | not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | BEARSKIN | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | you | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | is in a quote | shall | BEARSKIN | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | wed in a quote | our | nom wedding «event 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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