Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 36

She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada’s head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes.

Who acts: Falada, true princess · What happens: carry, kill, hear, weep, beg up, have · To what, where: point, faithful Falada, head, man

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 (Falada, true princess), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 point	nmod:poss
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 killed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 killed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Falada	det
8	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Falada	amod
9	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 killed	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	aux:pass
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 carried	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 heard	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 princess	amod
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 carried	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wept	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wept	nsubj
23	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 begged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 begged	cc
26	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 begged	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 nail	mark
30	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	acl
31	up	up	ADP	_	26 begged	compound:prt
32	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 head	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Falada	case
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 begged	obl:unmarked
35	against	against	ADP	_	39 gate	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 gate	det
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gate	amod
38	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gate	amod
39	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 begged	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 city	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 city	det
42	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gate	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
44	through	through	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 had	obl
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 begged	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 pass	mark
49	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 had	xcomp
50	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	51 morning	det
51	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 pass	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 evening	cc
53	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 morning	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 see	punct
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 see	mark
56	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 see	advmod
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 see	nsubj
58	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 see	aux
59	still	still	ADV	_	60 see	advmod
60	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 pass	advcl
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 see	obj
62	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	60 see	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Falada	Falada's point					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme
2	kill	past · passive		the faithful Falada					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hear	participle	the true princess					of point	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
4	weep	past	Falada						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beg up speech: request	past	Falada not said here	Falada's head	the man			against a large dark gate of the city	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
6	have	past	Falada						tree rules
7	pass	to-infinitive	Falada not said here				morning		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	might	Falada	man		there	still	sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	point		Falada						nom point «cognition 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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