Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 83

All this the old king saw: so he went home without being seen; and when the little goose-girl came back in the evening he called her aside, and asked her why she did so: but she burst into tears, and said, ‘That I must not tell you or any man, or I shall lose my life.’

Who acts: old king, king, little goose girl, girl, I · What happens: see, go, come back, call, ask, do · To what, where: evening, girl, tears, That, you, life · 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, king, little goose girl, girl), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 king	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 All	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	ccomp
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 seen	aux:pass
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 went	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 came	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girl	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 girl	amod
20	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 girl	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 goose	punct
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 evening	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 evening	det
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	nsubj
29	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 evening	acl:relcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	obj
31	aside	aside	ADV	_	29 called	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 asked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 asked	cc
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 asked	iobj
36	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	38 did	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 did	nsubj
38	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 asked	advcl
39	so	so	ADV	_	38 did	advmod
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 burst	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 burst	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 burst	nsubj
43	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	parataxis
44	into	into	ADP	_	45 tears	case
45	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 burst	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 said	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 said	cc
48	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 burst	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 tell	punct
50	‘	'	PUNCT	_	55 tell	punct
51	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 tell	obl
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 tell	nsubj
53	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 tell	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 tell	advmod
55	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 said	ccomp
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 tell	iobj
57	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 man	cc
58	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	59 man	det
59	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 you	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 lose	punct
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	64 lose	cc
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 lose	nsubj
63	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 lose	aux
64	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 tell	conj
65	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 life	nmod:poss
66	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 lose	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 burst	punct
68	’	'	PUNCT	_	43 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	all old king						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	past	king					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	gerund · passive	king not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	come back	past	the little goose girl				evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	past	king	the evening not said here	girl			aside property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	ask speech: ask	past	all old king not said here		girl				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	do	past	girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	burst	past	girl			tears			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	say speech: assert	past	girl not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	not tell speech: assert	must	I	That	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
11	lose	shall	I	my life					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

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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