Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 45
Dummling thought of the little grey man, who could certainly help him; so he went into the forest, and in the same place where he had felled the tree, he saw a man sitting, who had a very sorrowful face.
Who acts: Dummling, little grey man, man · What happens: think, help, go, fell, see, sit · To what, where: Dummling, forest, tree, man, same place, sorrowful face
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, little grey man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:1996): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 help | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 11 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 12 help | advmod |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 saw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 saw | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 place | amod |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 saw | obl |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 felled | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 felled | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 felled | aux |
| 30 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 place | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 tree | det |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 felled | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 saw | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 saw | obj |
| 38 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 saw | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 had | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 had | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 man | acl:relcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 face | det |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 sorrowful | advmod |
| 44 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 face | amod |
| 45 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Dummling | of the little grey man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | could | the little grey man | Dummling | certainly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | go | past | Dummling | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | fell | past · perfect | Dummling | the tree | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Dummling | a man | the same place | tree rules | |||
| 6 | sit | gerund | a man not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | have | past | a man | a sorrowful face | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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