Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 28
Now the old king happened just then to have nothing else to do; so he amused himself by sitting at his kitchen window, looking at what was going on; and he saw her in the courtyard.
Who acts: old king, king · What happens: happen, have, do, amuse, sit, look · To what, where: nothing, king, kitchen window, maid, courtyard
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 (old king, king), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 happened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 have | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happened | ccomp |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 nothing | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 nothing | acl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 amused | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 amused | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 amused | nsubj |
| 17 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 amused | obj |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 sitting | mark |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 amused | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 window | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 window | nmod:poss |
| 23 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 window | compound |
| 24 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sitting | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looking | punct |
| 26 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sitting | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 what | case |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 looking | obl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 going | aux |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 going | compound:prt |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 saw | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 saw | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 saw | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 courtyard | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 courtyard | det |
| 39 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 saw | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the old king | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the old king not said here | nothing | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the old king not said here | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | amuse | past | king | king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | king not said here | king's kitchen window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | king not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at what=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go on | past · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | see | past | king | maid | the courtyard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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