Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 29
Now the name of this lad, that the real bride was to help in watching the king's geese, was Curdken.
Who acts: real bride · What happens: help, watch, be, name · To what, where: geese, Curdken, lad
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 (real 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 name | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lad | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lad | det |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Curdken | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 Curdken | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bride | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bride | amod |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Curdken | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bride | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 was | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 watching | mark |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 help | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 geese | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 watching | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bride | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Curdken | cop |
| 23 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 name | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | to-infinitive | the real bride not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | the real bride not said here | the king's geese | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the real bride | Curdken | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | this lad | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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