Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 9
Then they all took a sorrowful leave of the princess; and she put the lock of hair into her bosom, got upon her horse, and set off on her journey to her bridegroom’s kingdom.
Who acts: hands, princess · What happens: take, put, get, set off, bosom, journey · To what, where: sorrowful leave, lock, bosom, journey
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 (hands, princess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 leave | det |
| 6 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leave | amod |
| 7 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lock | det |
| 16 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hair | case |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lock | nmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 bosom | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 horse | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 horse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 got | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 set | cc |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 set | compound:prt |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 journey | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 journey | nmod:poss |
| 33 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 kingdom | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 36 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 bridegroom | case |
| 38 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | hands = hand | a sorrowful leave of the princess | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | past | princess | the lock of hair | princess's bosom | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lock=Goal | |||
| 3 | get | past | princess not said here | upon princess's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | set off | past | hands = hand not said here | princess's journey | to princess's bridegroom's kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | bosom | princess | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | journey | princess | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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