Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 10

One day, as they were riding along by a brook, the princess began to feel very thirsty: and she 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, I · What happens: ride along, begin, feel, say, get down, fetch · To what, where: One day, water, me, golden cup · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, I), 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	15 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 brook	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 brook	det
11	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 riding	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 feel	mark
17	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 thirsty	advmod
19	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feel	xcomp
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 maid	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 maid	nmod:poss
26	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 get	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 get	punct
29	Pray	pray	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 get	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fetch	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fetch	cc
34	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 get	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 fetch	obj
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 water	det
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fetch	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 cup	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 cup	nmod:poss
40	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 cup	amod
41	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fetch	obl
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 brook	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 brook	case
44	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	45 brook	advmod
45	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cup	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 want	punct
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 want	case
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 want	nsubj
49	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 fetch	parataxis
50	to	to	PART	_	51 drink	mark
51	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 want	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 began	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 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	princess					to princess's maid	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to maid=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	get down	infinitive						down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6	fetch	infinitive		some water	me	my golden cup out brook			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=Theme
7	want	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	I 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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