Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 55

Then she drove on the geese and sat down again in the meadow, and began to comb out her hair as before, and Curdken ran up to her, and wanted to take of it; but she cried out quickly--

Who acts: heart, Curdken · What happens: drive, sit down, begin, comb out, run up, want · To what, where: meadow, 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, Curdken), 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	3 drove	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 geese	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 geese	det
6	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drove	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 meadow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meadow	det
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 comb	mark
18	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 comb	compound:prt
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hair	nmod:poss
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comb	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 before	case
23	before	before	ADV	_	18 comb	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ran	cc
26	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ran	nsubj
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 began	parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 ran	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ran	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wanted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wanted	cc
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ran	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 take	mark
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wanted	xcomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 take	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 cried	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 cried	cc
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 cried	nsubj
41	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 cried	compound:prt
43	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	41 cried	advmod
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	heart				then	on the geese	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past	heart not said here			the meadow	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location
3	begin	past	heart not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	comb out	to-infinitive	heart not said here	heart's hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	run up	past	Curdken		heart				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result
6	want	past	Curdken not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Curdken not said here					of hair	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of it=Initial_Location
8	cry out speech: express	past	heart					quickly property	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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