Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 42

And when they came to the meadow, the princess sat down upon a bank there and let down her waving locks of hair, which were all of pure gold; and when Curdken saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up, and would have pulled some of the locks out; but she cried--

Who acts: alas, princess, Curdken, gold · What happens: come, sit down, let down, wave, see, glitter · To what, where: meadow, bank, locks, gold, sun, some

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 (alas, princess, Curdken, gold), 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	_	11 sat	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 meadow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meadow	det
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 sat	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 bank	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bank	det
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 sat	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 let	compound:prt
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 waving	nmod:poss
21	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 let	xcomp
22	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 waving	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 hair	case
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 locks	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 all	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 all	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 all	cop
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 hair	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 gold	case
30	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gold	amod
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 all	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 saw	cc
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 saw	advmod
35	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 saw	nsubj
36	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 saw	obj
38	glitter	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 saw	xcomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 sun	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sun	det
41	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 glitter	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ran	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 ran	nsubj
44	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 saw	parataxis
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 ran	compound:prt
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 pulled	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 pulled	cc
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 pulled	aux
49	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 pulled	aux
50	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 ran	conj
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	50 pulled	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 locks	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 locks	det
54	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 some	nmod
55	out	out	ADP	_	50 pulled	compound:prt
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 cried	punct
57	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 cried	cc
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 cried	nsubj
59	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	alas = ala		the meadow		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	the princess		a bank; there	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bank=Location
3	let down	infinitive	the princess not said here				tree rules
4	wave	gerund	the princess not said here	locks of hair			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
5	see	past	Curdken	gold			tree rules
6	glitter	infinitive	gold not said here		the sun		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location
7	run up	past	Curdken				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pull out	would · perfect	Curdken not said here	some			tree rules
9	cry speech: express	past	princess				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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