Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 35

‘Then tell one of your slaughterers to cut off the head of the horse I rode upon, for it was very unruly, and plagued me sadly on the road’; but the truth was, she was very much afraid lest Falada should some day or other speak, and tell all she had done to the princess.

Who acts: you, I, head, truth, bride · What happens: tell, cut off, ride, be, plague, do · To what, where: one, head, horse, me, road · 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 (you, I, head, truth), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tell	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 slaughterers	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 slaughterers	nmod:poss
7	slaughterers	slaughterer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cut	mark
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 horse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 head	nmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 rode	nsubj
17	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 horse	acl:relcl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 rode	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unruly	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 unruly	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 unruly	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 unruly	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 unruly	advmod
24	unruly	unruly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cut	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 plagued	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 plagued	cc
27	plagued	plague	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 unruly	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 plagued	obj
29	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	27 plagued	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 road	det
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plagued	obl
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 plagued	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 afraid	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 afraid	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 truth	det
37	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 afraid	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 afraid	cop
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 afraid	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 afraid	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 afraid	cop
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 much	advmod
43	much	much	ADV	_	44 afraid	advmod
44	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	advcl
45	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	49 day	case
46	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 day	nsubj
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 day	aux
48	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	49 day	det
49	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 afraid	obl
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 speak	cc
51	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 speak	amod
52	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 day	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 tell	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 tell	cc
55	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
56	all	all	ADV	_	59 done	advmod
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 done	nsubj
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 done	aux
59	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 tell	ccomp
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 princess	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 princess	det
62	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 done	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		one of your slaughterers		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
2	cut off	to-infinitive	you not said here	the head of the horse					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	ride	past	I	the horse not said here					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
4	is	past	head					unruly property	tree rules
5	plague	past		me		the road		sadly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
6	is	past	the truth				day	afraid property	tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	do	past · perfect	bride					to the princess; all property	vn act-114-1 «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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