Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 74

And Curdken went on telling the king what had happened upon the meadow where the geese fed; how his hat was blown away; and how he was forced to run after it, and to leave his flock of geese to themselves.

Who acts: Curdken, geese · What happens: go, tell, happen, feed, blow away, force · To what, where: king, meadow, hat, Curdken, flock, geese · 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 (Curdken, geese), 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 went	cc
2	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 telling	mark
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	aux
10	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 telling	ccomp
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 meadow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meadow	det
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 happened	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 fed	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 geese	det
16	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fed	nsubj
17	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 meadow	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 blown	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 blown	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hat	nmod:poss
21	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blown	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 blown	aux:pass
23	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 blown	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 forced	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 forced	cc
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 forced	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forced	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 forced	aux:pass
30	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 run	mark
32	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 forced	xcomp
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 run	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 leave	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 leave	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 leave	mark
38	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 forced	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 flock	nmod:poss
40	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 leave	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 geese	case
42	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 flock	nmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 themselves	case
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 leave	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Curdken						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	Curdken not said here		the king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect				the meadow			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon meadow=Location
4	feed	participle	the geese						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	blow away	past · passive		Curdken's hat				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
6	force	past · passive		Curdken					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	run	to-infinitive	Curdken not said here				after hat		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	leave	to-infinitive		Curdken's flock of geese	geese = goose				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent flock=Theme to themselves=Recipient

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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