Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 25
The eldest thought: ‘I shall soon find an opportunity of pulling out a feather,’ and as soon as Dummling had gone out she seized the goose by the wing, but her finger and hand remained sticking fast to it.
Who acts: I, opportunity, Dummling, goose, finger · What happens: find, pull out, go out, seize, remain, stick · To what, where: opportunity, feather, goose, hand
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 (I, opportunity, Dummling, goose), 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 | 3 thought | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 thought | amod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 find | advmod |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 opportunity | det |
| 11 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 pulling | mark |
| 13 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 opportunity | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pulling | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feather | det |
| 16 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulling | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seized | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 soon | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 seized | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 gone | mark |
| 23 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | aux |
| 25 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 seized | advcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 gone | compound:prt |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seized | nsubj |
| 28 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 goose | det |
| 30 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seized | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 wing | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wing | det |
| 33 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seized | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 remained | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 remained | cc |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 finger | nmod:poss |
| 37 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 remained | nsubj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 hand | cc |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 finger | conj |
| 40 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | conj |
| 41 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 remained | xcomp |
| 42 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 sticking | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 sticking | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | I | a opportunity | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic | |||
| 2 | pull out | gerund | a opportunity not said here | a feather | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go out | past · perfect | Dummling | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | seize | past | goose | the goose | by the wing; soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme | |||
| 5 | remain | past | goose's finger and hand | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stick | gerund | goose's finger and hand not said here | hand | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient |
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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