Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 45
As soon as the girl was assured of this, she came from behind the cask.
Who acts: girl · What happens: assure, come · To what, where: girl, cask
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 (girl), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 assured | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 assured | aux:pass |
| 7 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 came | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 assured | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 assured | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 cask | case |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 cask | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cask | det |
| 16 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past · passive | the girl | of this | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past | girl | the cask | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cask=Initial_Location |
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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