Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 38
The poor betrothed girl crouched trembling and shuddering behind the cask, for she saw what a terrible fate had been intended for her by the robbers.
Who acts: poor, girl, robbers · What happens: betroth, crouch, tremble, shudder, see, intend · To what, where: cask, terrible fate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poor, girl, robbers), 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 poor | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 betrothed | nsubj |
| 3 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crouched | nsubj |
| 5 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 betrothed | ccomp |
| 6 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 crouched | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shuddering | cc |
| 8 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 trembling | conj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cask | det |
| 11 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shuddering | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crouched | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 intended | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fate | det |
| 18 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fate | amod |
| 19 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 intended | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 intended | aux:pass |
| 22 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 intended | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 robbers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 robbers | det |
| 27 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 intended | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 betrothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth | past | the poor | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | crouch | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | girl not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shudder | gerund | girl not said here | the cask | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | see | past | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | intend | past · perfect · passive | the robbers | a terrible fate | for girl | tree rules |
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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