Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 27

The poor Maiden thought to herself, "This is no longer my place; I will go and seek my brothers"; and when night came she escaped and went quite deep into the wood.

Who acts: poor Maiden, This, night, maiden · What happens: think, be, go, seek, come, escape · To what, where: maiden, place, brothers, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Maiden, This, night, maiden), 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	3 Maiden	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Maiden	amod
3	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 herself	case
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
9	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 place	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 place	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 place	advmod
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 place	nmod:poss
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seek	cc
20	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brothers	nmod:poss
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seek	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 seek	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 escaped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 escaped	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 came	advmod
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 escaped	advcl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 escaped	nsubj
30	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 escaped	conj
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 deep	advmod
34	deep	deep	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 wood	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wood	det
37	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the poor Maiden		maiden			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	This	my place			long property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	future	the poor Maiden = maiden					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek in a quote	infinitive	the poor Maiden = maiden not said here	my brothers				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
5	come	past	night					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	escape	past	maiden					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past	maiden not said here			the wood	deep property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location

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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