Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 7

One day, as they were riding along by the side of a brook, the princess began to feel very thirsty, and said to her maid, "Pray get down and fetch me some water in my golden cup out of yonder brook, for I want to drink." "

Who acts: hands, princess, Pray · What happens: ride along, begin, feel, say, get down, fetch · To what, where: One day, maid, water, princess, golden cup · 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 (hands, princess, Pray), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 riding	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 riding	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 riding	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 riding	aux
7	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 riding	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 side	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 side	det
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 riding	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 brook	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 brook	det
14	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 side	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 feel	mark
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 thirsty	advmod
22	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feel	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 began	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 maid	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 maid	nmod:poss
28	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
31	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 get	nsubj
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fetch	cc
35	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 get	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 fetch	obj
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fetch	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 cup	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 cup	nmod:poss
41	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 cup	amod
42	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fetch	obl
43	out	out	ADP	_	46 brook	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 brook	case
45	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	46 brook	advmod
46	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fetch	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 want	punct
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 want	case
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 want	nsubj
50	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 get	parataxis
51	to	to	PART	_	52 drink	mark
52	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 want	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 want	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 want	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride along	past · progressive	hands = hand	One day not said here				by the side of a brook; along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme
2	begin	past	the princess				day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	feel	to-infinitive	the princess not said here					thirsty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	the princess not said here		princess's maid				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maid=Recipient clause=Topic
5	get down in a quote	infinitive	Pray					down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6	fetch in a quote	infinitive	Pray not said here	some water	the princess = princess	my golden cup		out brook	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=Theme
7	want in a quote	present	the princess = princess						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	drink not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the princess = princess not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «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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