Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 57

Dummling went straight into the forest, and there sat the little grey man to whom he had given his cake.

Who acts: Dummling · What happens: go, sit, give · To what, where: forest, little grey man, 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 (Dummling), 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	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 forest	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
13	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 whom	case
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sat	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 whom	acl:relcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cake	nmod:poss
21	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	Dummling		the forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	Dummling not said here	the little grey man	there	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
3	give	past · perfect · passive		Dummling		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient cake=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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