Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 62

So they watched the geese till it grew dark.

Who acts: hills, wind · What happens: watch, grow · To what, where: geese

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 (hills, wind), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 watched	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 watched	nsubj
3	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 geese	det
5	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 watched	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 grew	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 watched	advcl
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	hills = hill	the geese					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
2	grow	past	wind					dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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