Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 15
Then the princess was so thirsty that she got off her horse and lay down, and held her head over the running stream, and cried, and said, "What will become of me?"
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, get off, lay down, hold, run, cry · To what, where: horse, head, running stream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | 6 thirsty | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thirsty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thirsty | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 thirsty | advmod |
| 6 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 got | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thirsty | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 got | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 held | cc |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thirsty | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 stream | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stream | det |
| 23 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 stream | amod |
| 24 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cried | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cried | cc |
| 27 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thirsty | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 cried | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 become | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 become | punct |
| 33 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 become | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 become | aux |
| 35 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 become | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 become | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | then | thirsty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get off | past | princess | princess's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | princess not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | the princess not said here | princess's head | the running stream | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Theme over stream=Location | |||
| 5 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | become in a quote | future | of me | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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