Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 33

In the middle of the fields the parson met them, and when he saw the procession he said: ‘For shame, you good-for-nothing girls, why are you running across the fields after this young man?

Who acts: parson, procession, you · What happens: meet, see, say, run · To what, where: others, middle, fields · 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 (parson, procession, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fields	det
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 middle	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parson	det
8	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	nsubj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saw	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 met	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 procession	det
17	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	ccomp
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 ‘	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
22	For	for	ADP	_	23 shame	case
23	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ‘	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shame	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 girls	nsubj
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 girls	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 girls	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 girls	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 for	punct
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 girls	compound
31	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shame	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 running	punct
33	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	36 running	advmod
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 running	aux
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 running	nsubj
36	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 girls	acl
37	across	across	ADP	_	39 fields	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fields	det
39	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 running	obl
40	after	after	ADP	_	43 man	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 man	det
42	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 man	amod
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 running	obl
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	meet	past	the parson	others = other	the middle of the fields		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
2	see	past	parson				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the procession				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	run	present · progressive	you		the fields	after this young man	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory

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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