Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 32
Tonight, when the robbers are all asleep, we will flee together.
Who acts: robbers, we · What happens: be, flee
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:960): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flee | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asleep | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 asleep | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 robbers | det |
| 5 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 asleep | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asleep | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 asleep | advmod |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flee | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asleep | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 flee | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 flee | aux |
| 12 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 flee | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the robbers | all, asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flee | future | we | tonight | together property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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