Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 12
Then she was so thirsty that she got down, and knelt over the little brook, and drank; for she was frightened, and dared not bring out her golden cup; and she wept and said, ‘Alas! what will become of me?’
Who acts: maid · What happens: be, get down, kneel, drink, frighten, not dare · To what, where: little brook, maid, 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 (maid), 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 | 5 thirsty | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thirsty | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thirsty | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 thirsty | advmod |
| 5 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thirsty | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knelt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knelt | cc |
| 12 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 brook | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brook | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brook | amod |
| 16 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knelt | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drank | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drank | cc |
| 19 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knelt | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 frightened | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 frightened | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 frightened | aux:pass |
| 24 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thirsty | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dared | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dared | cc |
| 27 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 frightened | conj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 dared | advmod |
| 29 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 dared | xcomp |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 bring | compound:prt |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cup | nmod:poss |
| 32 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cup | amod |
| 33 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bring | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 wept | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 wept | cc |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 wept | nsubj |
| 37 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thirsty | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 said | cc |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wept | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 become | punct |
| 41 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 become | punct |
| 42 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 46 become | discourse |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 Alas | punct |
| 44 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 46 become | nsubj |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 become | aux |
| 46 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 said | ccomp |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 me | case |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 become | obl |
| 49 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 46 become | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maid | then | thirsty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get down | past | maid | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kneel | past | maid not said here | the little brook | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over brook=Location | ||||
| 4 | drink | past | maid not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | frighten | past · passive | maid | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | not dare | past | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | not bring out | infinitive | maid's golden cup | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | |||||
| 8 | weep | past | maid | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | past | maid not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | become | future | of me | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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