Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 31
The next morning Dummling took the goose under his arm and set out, without troubling himself about the three girls who were hanging on to it.
Who acts: Dummling, three girls · What happens: take, set out, trouble, hang on · To what, where: goose, arm, Dummling
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, three girls), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goose | det |
| 7 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arm | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 took | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 troubling | punct |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 troubling | mark |
| 16 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 set | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 troubling | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 girls | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girls | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 girls | nummod |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 troubling | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 hanging | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hanging | aux |
| 24 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 girls | acl:relcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 hanging | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hanging | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Dummling | the goose | Dummling's arm | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goose=Destination | ||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | Dummling not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trouble | gerund | Dummling not said here | Dummling | about the three girls | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | hang on | past · progressive | the three girls | arm | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/48/31/