Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 159

So he waited till her father came home, and told him that the unknown maiden who had been at the feast had hidden herself in the pigeon-house.

Who acts: prince, father · What happens: wait, come, tell, hide · To what, where: prince, unknown maiden, feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (prince, father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 waited	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	advcl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 hidden	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
15	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maiden	amod
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hidden	nsubj:pass
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hidden	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hidden	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 hidden	aux:pass
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 feast	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 feast	det
22	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hidden	obl
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hidden	aux
24	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	ccomp
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 hidden	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
28	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 pigeon	punct
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hidden	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	prince					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	maid's father				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	prince not said here		prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	hide	past · perfect · passive		the unknown maiden		the feast	in the pigeon house	tree rules

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.

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