Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 97
When he was gone the poor bride clothed herself in black, and whenever she thought of her bridegroom burst into tears.
Who acts: BEARSKIN, poor bride, bride · What happens: be, clothe, think, burst · To what, where: bride, black, tears
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, poor bride, bride), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bride | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bride | amod |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clothed | nsubj |
| 8 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | acl:relcl |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 clothed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 black | case |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clothed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 burst | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 burst | cc |
| 14 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 thought | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 burst | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bridegroom | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burst | obl |
| 20 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 tears | case |
| 22 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 burst | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | BEARSKIN | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clothe | past | the poor bride | bride | black | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | bride | whenever property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | burst | past | tears | of bride's bridegroom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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