Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 52
The next morning, as they were going through the dark gate, the poor girl looked up at Falada’s head, and cried:
Who acts: hills, poor girl · What happens: go, look up, cry · To what, where: next morning, dark gate
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 (hills, poor girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 morning | acl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gate | amod |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 20 | Falada | Falada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Falada | case |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cried | cc |
| 25 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | hills = hill | the next morning not said here | the dark gate | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morning=Theme | |||
| 2 | look up | past | the poor girl | morning | at Falada's head | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at head=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the poor girl not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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