Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 57

The countryman then began to tell his tale, and said he was going to take the goose to a christening.

Who acts: countryman · What happens: begin, tell, say, go, take · To what, where: tale, goose, christening · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countryman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 countryman	det
2	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tale	nmod:poss
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 going	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 going	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 goose	det
18	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 christening	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 christening	det
21	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the countryman			then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the countryman not said here	countryman's tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the countryman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past · progressive	countryman				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	to-infinitive	countryman not said here	the goose	a christening		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goose=Theme to christening=Destination
6	tell		countryman				nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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