Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 80

In the twilight of evening, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife.

Who acts: husband · What happens: clamber down, clutch, take · To what, where: twilight, handful, rampion, wife

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 (husband), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 twilight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twilight	det
3	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clambered	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 evening	case
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twilight	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 twilight	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clambered	nsubj
8	clambered	clamber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 clambered	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 wall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wall	det
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clambered	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garden	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clambered	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 enchantress	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 enchantress	det
18	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 garden	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clutched	punct
20	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	21 clutched	advmod
21	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clambered	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 handful	det
23	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clutched	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 rampion	case
25	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 handful	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clambered	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 wife	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 clambered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	clamber down	past	husband			the twilight of evening	over the wall; into the garden of the enchantress; down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination
2	clutch	past	husband not said here	a handful of rampion			hastily property	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
3	take	past	husband not said here	rampion	husband's wife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wife=Destination

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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