Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 6
Then they took a sorrowful leave of each other, and the princess put the lock of her mother's hair into her bosom, got upon her horse, and set off on her journey to her bridegroom's kingdom.
Who acts: hands, princess · What happens: take, put, get, set off, bosom, journey · To what, where: sorrowful leave, lock, bosom, journey
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 (hands, princess), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 leave | det |
| 5 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leave | amod |
| 6 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 leave | nmod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lock | det |
| 16 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 mother | case |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lock | nmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 bosom | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 horse | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 horse | nmod:poss |
| 29 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 set | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 set | cc |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 set | compound:prt |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 journey | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 journey | nmod:poss |
| 36 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 kingdom | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 39 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 bridegroom | case |
| 41 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | hands = hand | a sorrowful leave of each | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | past | the princess | the lock of princess's mother's hair | princess's bosom | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lock=Goal | |||
| 3 | get | past | hands = hand not said here | upon princess's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | set off | past | hands = hand not said here | princess's journey | to princess's bridegroom's kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | bosom | princess | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | journey | princess | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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