Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 8

When the time came for them to set out, the fairy went into her bed-chamber, and took a little knife, and cut off a lock of her hair, and gave it to the princess, and said, ‘Take care of it, dear child; for it is a charm that may be of use to you on the road.’

Who acts: time, hands, fairy, horse, charm · What happens: come, set out, go, take, cut off, give · To what, where: bed chamber, little knife, lock, princess, care, you · 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 (time, hands, fairy, horse), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	advcl
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 set	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 set	mark
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fairy	det
12	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 chamber	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 chamber	nmod:poss
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chamber	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 bed	punct
18	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 knife	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 knife	amod
24	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cut	cc
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 took	parataxis
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lock	det
30	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 hair	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hair	nmod:poss
33	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lock	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gave	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gave	cc
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gave	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 princess	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 princess	det
40	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Take	punct
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 Take	punct
46	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 said	ccomp
47	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Take	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 Take	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 child	punct
51	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 child	amod
52	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Take	obl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 charm	punct
54	for	for	ADP	_	58 charm	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 charm	nsubj
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 charm	cop
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 charm	det
58	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	parataxis
59	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 use	nsubj
60	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 use	aux
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 use	cop
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 use	case
63	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 charm	acl:relcl
64	to	to	ADP	_	65 you	case
65	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	63 use	nmod
66	on	on	ADP	_	68 road	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 road	det
68	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 use	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	63 use	punct
70	’	'	PUNCT	_	58 charm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set out	to-infinitive	hands = hand					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	the fairy			fairy's bed chamber		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
4	take	past		a little knife				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	cut off	participle		a lock of fairy's hair				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lock=Eventuality
6	give	past		lock	the princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to princess=Recipient
7	say speech: assert	past	the fairy not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	take	infinitive		care			of horse; dear child obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location
9	is	present	horse				for a charm	tree rules
10	is	may	a charm		you	the road	of use	tree rules

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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