--- title: Then she drove on the geese and sat down again in the meadow, and be… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then she drove on the geese and sat down again in the meadow, and began to comb out her hair as before, and Curdken ran up to her, and wanted to take of it; but she cried out quickly-- Who acts: heart, Curdken. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/) / 55 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 55 Then she drove on the geese and sat down again in the meadow, and began to comb out her hair as before, and Curdken ran up to her, and wanted to take of it; but she cried out quickly-- **Who acts:** heart, Curdken · **What happens:** drive, sit down, begin, comb out, run up, want · **To what, where:** meadow, hair, heart This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Curdken), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:6:55 # text = Then she drove on the geese and sat down again in the meadow, and began to comb out her hair as before, and Curdken ran up to her, and wanted to take of it; but she cried out quickly-- 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 geese goose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 comb comb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 before before ADV RB _ 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Curdken Curdken PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 out out ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 -- -- PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | past | heart | | | | then | on the geese | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sit down** | past | heart *not said here* | | | the meadow | again | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location | | 3 | **begin** | past | heart *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **comb out** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | heart's hair | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 5 | **run up** | past | Curdken | | heart | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result | | 6 | **want** | past | Curdken *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Curdken *not said here* | | | | | of hair | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of it=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | heart | | | | | quickly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/56/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/)