Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 36

At twilight, 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 «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 twilight	case
2	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clambered	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 twilight	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clambered	nsubj
5	clambered	clamber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 clambered	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clambered	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clambered	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 enchantress	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 enchantress	det
15	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 garden	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 clutched	punct
17	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	18 clutched	advmod
18	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clambered	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 handful	det
20	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 clutched	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 rampion	case
22	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 handful	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clambered	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 wife	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clambered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	clamber down	past	husband			twilight	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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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