Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 43

When Dummling heard this, he went with his goose and all her train before the king’s daughter, and as soon as she saw the seven people running on and on, one behind the other, she began to laugh quite loudly, and as if she would never stop.

Who acts: Dummling, goose, seven people · What happens: hear, go, see, run on, begin, laugh · To what, where: this, seven people, one

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 (Dummling, goose, seven people), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 goose	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 goose	nmod:poss
10	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 train	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 train	det:predet
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 train	nmod:poss
14	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goose	conj
15	before	before	ADP	_	19 daughter	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 daughter	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 king	case
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 soon	advmod
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 saw	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 saw	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 people	nummod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 saw	obj
30	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 people	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 running	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 on	cc
33	on	on	ADV	_	31 on	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 one	punct
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 running	obl
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	38 other	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 other	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 one	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 began	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 began	nsubj
41	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saw	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 laugh	mark
43	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 began	xcomp
44	quite	quite	ADV	_	45 loudly	advmod
45	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	43 laugh	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 stop	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 stop	cc
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 stop	mark
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 stop	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 stop	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 stop	aux
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 stop	advmod
53	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 began	parataxis
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Dummling	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	go	past	Dummling		before the king's daughter	with Dummling's goose and goose's train	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with goose=Beneficiary
3	see	past	goose	the seven people		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
4	run on	gerund	the seven people not said here	one behind the other			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	goose				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	laugh	to-infinitive	goose not said here			loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not stop a condition, not said to happen	would	goose				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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