Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 49

Then he was very angry and sulky, and would not speak to her at all; but they watched the geese until it grew dark in the evening, and then drove them homewards.

Who acts: Curdken, hills, hat · What happens: be, not speak, watch, grow, drive · To what, where: heart, all, geese, hills · 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 (Curdken, hills, hat), 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	5 angry	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sulky	cc
7	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 angry	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speak	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 speak	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 speak	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 speak	advmod
12	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 speak	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 speak	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 watched	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 watched	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 watched	nsubj
20	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 geese	det
22	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 watched	obj
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 grew	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grew	nsubj
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 watched	advcl
26	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grew	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 evening	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 evening	det
29	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 drove	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 drove	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 drove	advmod
33	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 watched	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 drove	obj
35	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drove	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Curdken				then	angry property	tree rules
2	be		Curdken not said here						tree rules
3	not speak speech: other	would			heart	all			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
4	watch	past	hills = hill	the geese					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
5	grow	past	hat				evening	dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drive	past	hills = hill not said here	hills = hill			then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme homeward=Destination

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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