Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 32
They were obliged to run after him continually, now left, now right, wherever his legs took him.
Who acts: legs · What happens: oblige, run, leave, take · To what, where: others, 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 (legs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 run | obl |
| 8 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 left | advmod |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 obliged | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 right | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 right | advmod |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 left | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 16 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 took | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 legs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | others = other | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | after Dummling | continually property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | now | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | Dummling's legs | Dummling | wherever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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