Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 37
He was astonished at this and called out: ‘Hi! your reverence, whither away so quickly?
Who acts: procession, your · What happens: be, call out, reverence · To what, where: this
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, your), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 astonished | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 astonished | cop |
| 3 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 astonished | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 astonished | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 called | compound:prt |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 reverence | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 reverence | punct |
| 11 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 14 reverence | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hi | punct |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 reverence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 astonished | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 16 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 reverence | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 quickly | advmod |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 away | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | procession | this | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | procession not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reverence | your | nom reverence «feeling transitive»: poss=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.
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