Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 23
Then the waiting-maid got upon Falada, and the real bride was set upon the other horse, and they went on in this way till at last they came to the royal court.
Who acts: waiting maid, clothes · What happens: get, set, go on, come · To what, where: real bride, way, last
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 (waiting maid, clothes), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maid | det |
| 3 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maid | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
| 5 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 Falada | case |
| 8 | Falada | Falada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bride | amod |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux:pass |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 got | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 horse | amod |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 went | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 came | mark |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 came | obl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 went | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 court | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 court | det |
| 35 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 court | amod |
| 36 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the waiting maid | then | upon Falada | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | set | past · passive | the real bride | upon the other horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | clothes | this way | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | clothes | last | to the royal court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location |
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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