Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 39

Whilst the five were trotting thus one behind the other, two labourers came with their hoes from the fields; the parson called out to them and begged that they would set him and the sexton free.

Who acts: five, two labourers, labourers · What happens: trot, come, call out, beg, set · To what, where: one, other, parson, labourers · 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 (five, two labourers, labourers), 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	5 trotting	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 five	det
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 trotting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trotting	aux
5	trotting	trot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 came	advcl
6	thus	thus	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 trotting	obj
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trotting	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 labourers	nummod
13	labourers	labourer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 hoes	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hoes	nmod:poss
17	hoes	hoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 fields	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fields	det
20	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hoes	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 parson	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 parson	det
23	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 parson	acl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 called	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 begged	cc
29	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 set	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 set	aux
33	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begged	ccomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 free	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sexton	det
37	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 free	obl:unmarked
38	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 set	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	trot	past · progressive	the five	one		the other		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme behind other=Trajectory
2	come	past	two labourers	the parson			with labourers's hoes from the fields	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call out speech: assert	participle		the parson not said here	labourers = labourer			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	beg speech: request	past	two labourers not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	set	would	labourers = labourer	parson				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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