Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 47

But God helped her, so that she passed safely over them, and then she and the old woman went upstairs, opened the door, and hastened as fast as they could from the murderers’ den.

Who acts: God, woman · What happens: help, pass, go, open, hasten · To what, where: woman, door

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 (God, woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 helped	cc
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 helped	nsubj
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helped	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 passed	punct
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 passed	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 helped	parataxis
10	safely	safely	ADV	_	9 passed	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 went	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 woman	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 she	conj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	conj
22	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 opened	punct
24	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 opened	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hastened	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hastened	cc
29	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 helped	conj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 fast	advmod
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 hastened	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 could	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 could	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fast	advcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	39 den	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 murderers	det
37	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 den	nmod:poss
38	’	's	PART	_	37 murderers	case
39	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 could	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	God		woman			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
2	pass	past	woman				over sleepers = sleeper; safely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over they=Location
3	go	past	woman			then	upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open	past	woman not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	hasten	participle	God not said here				fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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