Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 23
He lifted her up, and taking her with him, went to an inn where he thought he would stay the night.
Who acts: Dummling · What happens: lift up, take, go, think, stay · To what, where: goose, inn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 taking | cc |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lifted | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taking | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 inn | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 inn | det |
| 15 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 thought | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 inn | acl:relcl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stay | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stay | aux |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | Dummling | goose | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | Dummling not said here | goose | with Dummling | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | Dummling not said here | a inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Dummling | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stay | would | Dummling | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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