Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 40
But they had scarcely touched the sexton when they were held fast, and now there were seven of them running behind Dummling and the goose.
Who acts: labourers, seven · What happens: touch, hold, be, run · To what, where: sexton, labourers, Dummling
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 (labourers, seven), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 touched | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 touched | advmod |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sexton | det |
| 7 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 held | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 held | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | aux:pass |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 touched | advcl |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 held | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 were | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 were | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 were | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 were | expl |
| 17 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | parataxis |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 were | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seven | nmod |
| 21 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 seven | advcl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 Dummling | case |
| 23 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 running | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 goose | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 goose | det |
| 26 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Dummling | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect | labourers = labourer | the sexton | scarcely property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sexton=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | labourers = labourer | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | seven of labourers | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | run | gerund | seven of labourers not said here | Dummling and the goose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind dummling=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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