Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 61
Then the wind came and blew off his hat, and off it flew a great distance over the hills and far away, so that he had to run after it: and when he came back, she had done up her hair again, and all was safe.
Who acts: wind, Curdken, girl, all · What happens: come, blow off, fly, have, run, come back · To what, where: hat, great distance, hills, hair
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 (wind, Curdken, girl, all), 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 | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blew | cc |
| 6 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 blew | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 flew | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 distance | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 distance | amod |
| 17 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 hills | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hills | det |
| 20 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flew | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 away | cc |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 hills | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 had | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flew | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 run | mark |
| 30 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 run | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 done | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 done | cc |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 came | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 came | nsubj |
| 37 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 done | advcl |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 came | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 came | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 done | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 done | aux |
| 42 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 came | conj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 done | compound:prt |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 hair | nmod:poss |
| 45 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 done | obj |
| 46 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 done | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 safe | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 safe | cc |
| 49 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 safe | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 safe | cop |
| 51 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the wind | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow off | past | the wind not said here | Curdken's hat | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | wind | a great distance | the hills | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme over hill=Location | |||
| 4 | have | past | Curdken | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | Curdken not said here | after wind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come back | past | Curdken | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | do up | past · perfect | girl | girl's hair | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | is | past | all | safe property | tree rules |
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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