Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 38
Do not forget that we have a christening today!’ and running after him he took him by the sleeve, but was also held fast to it.
Who acts: you, we, procession · What happens: not forget, have, run, take, hold · To what, where: christening, parson, sleeve · 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 (you, we, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 forget | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 forget | advmod |
| 3 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forget | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 christening | det |
| 8 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 took | advcl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 running | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forget | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 sleeve | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sleeve | det |
| 21 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 held | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 held | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 held | aux:pass |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 held | advmod |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 took | conj |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 held | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 held | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | imperative · do-support | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | we | a christening | today | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christening=Patient | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | procession not said here | after procession | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | procession | parson | by the sleeve | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 5 | hold | past · passive | procession not said here | sleeve | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
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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