Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 18

And as she leaned down to drink, the lock of hair fell from her bosom and floated away with the water, without her seeing it, she was so much frightened.

Who acts: heart, lock · What happens: learn down, drink, fall, float away, see, frighten · To what, where: bosom, hair, heart

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 (heart, lock), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 leaned	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 leaned	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leaned	nsubj
4	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 leaned	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drink	mark
7	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 leaned	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lock	det
10	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 hair	case
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lock	nmod
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drink	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 bosom	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bosom	nmod:poss
16	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 floated	cc
18	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 floated	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floated	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seeing	punct
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	26 seeing	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 seeing	nmod:poss
26	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 floated	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seeing	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 frightened	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 frightened	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 frightened	aux:pass
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 frightened	advmod
33	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 leaned	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn down	past	heart			down property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drink	to-infinitive	heart not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	the lock of hair		heart's bosom		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bosom=Initial_Location
4	float away	past	the lock of hair not said here			with the water; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	gerund	the lock of hair not said here	hair			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	frighten	past · passive		heart			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
7	bosom		heart				nom bosom «state 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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