Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 35
At the same time he seized the youngest by the hand in order to pull her away, but as soon as he touched her he likewise stuck fast, and was himself obliged to run behind.
Who acts: procession · What happens: seize, pull away, touch, stick, oblige, run behind · To what, where: youngest, order, goose, procession
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 (procession), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seized | nsubj |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youngest | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 seized | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 youngest | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 order | case |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pull | mark |
| 15 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seized | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pull | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 pull | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 touched | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 touched | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 soon | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 touched | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 touched | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 touched | nsubj |
| 24 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 touched | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stuck | nsubj |
| 27 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 28 stuck | advmod |
| 28 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 touched | parataxis |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 stuck | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 obliged | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 obliged | cc |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 obliged | aux:pass |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 obliged | nsubj |
| 34 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seized | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 run | mark |
| 36 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 obliged | xcomp |
| 37 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 36 run | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | procession | the youngest | order | time | by the hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Theme | |
| 2 | pull away | to-infinitive | procession not said here | goose | away property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | touch | past | procession | goose | soon property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | stick | past | procession | fast, likewise property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | oblige | past · passive | procession | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | run behind | to-infinitive | behind property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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