Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 65

‘The old woman hid me behind a large cask, and scarcely had she done this when the robbers returned home, dragging a young girl along with them.

Who acts: old woman, woman, robbers · What happens: hide, have, do, return, drag · To what, where: me, large cask, woman, this, 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 (old woman, woman, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hid	obj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 cask	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cask	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cask	amod
10	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hid	parataxis
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	obj
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 had	xcomp
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 done	obj
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 returned	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 robbers	det
20	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 returned	nsubj
21	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 returned	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dragging	punct
24	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 returned	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 girl	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 girl	amod
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dragging	obj
28	along	along	ADP	_	30 them	case
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dragging	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the old woman	me	a large cask		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Patient behind cask=Location
2	have	past		woman		scarcely property	tree rules
3	do	participle	woman not said here	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
4	return	past	the robbers			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	drag	gerund	the robbers not said here	a young girl		along robbers = robber	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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