Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 6
And she gave her a waiting-maid to ride with her, and give her into the bridegroom’s hands; and each had a horse for the journey.
Who acts: mother · What happens: give, ride, have · To what, where: waiting maid, queen, mother, hands, horse
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 maid | det |
| 6 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maid | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
| 8 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ride | mark |
| 10 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ride | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ride | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bridegroom | det |
| 19 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 bridegroom | case |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 give | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 had | advmod |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 horse | det |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 journey | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 journey | det |
| 30 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | mother | a waiting maid | queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient maid=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | mother not said here | with mother | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | mother not said here | mother | the bridegroom's hands | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | past | mother not said here | a horse | for the journey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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