Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 54
The man from the forest stood before it, began to eat, and by the end of one day the whole mountain had vanished.
Who acts: man, whole mountain · What happens: stand, begin, eat, vanish · To what, where: forest
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 (man, whole mountain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vanished | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 vanished | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 vanished | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 day | nummod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mountain | amod |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 vanished | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 vanished | aux |
| 25 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 stood | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the man from the forest | forest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the man from the forest not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | the man from the forest not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | vanish | past · perfect | the whole mountain | by the end of one day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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