Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 36
Before long the sexton came by and saw his master, the parson, running behind three girls.
What happens: long, come by, see, run · To what, where: sexton, master
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: 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 long | mark |
| 2 | long | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sexton | det |
| 4 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 long | obj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 parson | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 parson | det |
| 13 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 master | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 running | punct |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 girls | case |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 girls | nummod |
| 18 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 running | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | gerund | the sexton | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come by | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | procession's master and the parson | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | run | gerund | behind three girls | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind girl=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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