Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 57

Then she drove on the geese, and sat down again in the meadow, and began to comb out her hair as before; and Curdken ran up to her, and wanted to take hold of it; but she cried out quickly:

Who acts: mother, Curdken · What happens: drive, sit down, begin, comb out, run up, want · To what, where: meadow, hair, mother, hold

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 (mother, Curdken), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drove	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 geese	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 geese	det
6	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drove	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 meadow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 meadow	det
14	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 comb	mark
19	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 comb	compound:prt
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hair	nmod:poss
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comb	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 before	case
24	before	before	ADV	_	19 comb	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ran	cc
27	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 ran	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ran	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wanted	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wanted	cc
34	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 take	mark
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 wanted	xcomp
37	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 take	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hold	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 cried	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 cried	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 cried	nsubj
43	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 cried	compound:prt
45	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	43 cried	advmod
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	mother				then	on the geese	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past				the meadow	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location
3	begin	past							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	comb out	to-infinitive		mother's hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	run up	past	Curdken		mother				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result
6	want	past	mother not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	hold of hair					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
8	cry out speech: express	past	mother					quickly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	hold			hair					nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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