Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 20

After they had gone a long distance they came to a little hut, and the maiden, peeping in, found it empty, and thought, "Here we can stay and dwell."

Who acts: rushes, we · What happens: go, come, peep, find, think, stay · To what, where: long distance, distance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rushes, we), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 maiden	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 distance	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 distance	amod
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 distance	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 hut	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hut	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hut	amod
13	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 maiden	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 maiden	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maiden	det
17	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 peeping	punct
19	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 maiden	advcl
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 peeping	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 maiden	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	obj
24	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 found	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thought	cc
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stay	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 stay	punct
30	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 stay	advmod
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 stay	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 stay	aux
33	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thought	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dwell	cc
35	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stay	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 maiden	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 maiden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	rushes = rush	a long distance			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
2	come	past	rushes = rush	a long distance not said here		to a little hut	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
3	peep	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past		distance		empty property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	stay in a quote	can	we		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dwell in a quote	infinitive	we not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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