Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 75

But the old king told the boy to go out again the next day: and when morning came, he placed himself behind the dark gate, and heard how she spoke to Falada, and how Falada answered.

Who acts: old king, morning, king, mother, Falada · What happens: tell, go out, come, place, hear, speak · To what, where: boy, king, dark gate, Falada · 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 (old king, morning, king, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl:unmarked
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 placed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 placed	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 placed	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 placed	nsubj
22	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 placed	obj
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 gate	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gate	det
26	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gate	amod
27	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 placed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heard	cc
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 placed	parataxis
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 spoke	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 spoke	nsubj
33	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	ccomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 Falada	case
35	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 spoke	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 answered	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 answered	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 answered	advmod
39	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 answered	nsubj
40	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old king		the boy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old king not said here				again; day	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	morning						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	place	past	king	king		the dark gate			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme behind gate=Destination
5	hear	past							vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	speak speech: other	past	mother		Falada				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to falada=Co-Agent
7	answer speech: assert	past	Falada						vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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