Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 34

The words were hardly out of her mouth when the godless crew returned, dragging another young girl along with them.

Who acts: words, godless crew · What happens: be, return, drag · To what, where: mouth, young girl

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 (words, godless crew), 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	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mouth	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouth	cop
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 mouth	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 returned	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crew	det
11	godless	godless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crew	amod
12	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 returned	nsubj
13	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouth	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dragging	punct
15	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 returned	advcl
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 girl	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girl	amod
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dragging	obj
19	along	along	ADP	_	21 them	case
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dragging	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the words		woman's mouth	hardly property	tree rules
2	return	past	the godless crew				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drag	gerund	the godless crew not said here	another young girl		along words = word	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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