Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 24
At last, as they drew near the end of their journey, this treacherous servant threatened to kill her mistress if she ever told anyone what had happened.
Who acts: clothes, maid · What happens: draw, threaten, kill, tell, happen, journey · To what, where: end, treacherous servant, mistress, anyone · 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 (clothes, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 drew | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | conj |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 servant | punct |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 servant | det |
| 15 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 servant | amod |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journey | nmod |
| 17 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 servant | acl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kill | mark |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 threatened | xcomp |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kill | obj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 told | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 told | advmod |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | advcl |
| 26 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 happened | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 happened | aux |
| 29 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | clothes | near the end of clothes's journey this treacherous servant | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | threaten | participle | this treacherous servant not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | maid's mistress | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past | maid | anyone | ever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | |||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | journey | clothes | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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