Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 105
When night came she wanted to go home; and the king’s son followed here as before, that he might see into what house she went: but she sprang away from him all at once into the garden behind her father’s house.
Who acts: night, lady, son, house · What happens: come, want, go, follow, see, spring away · To what, where: garden
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, lady, son, house), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 2 night | mark |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | nsubj |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 followed | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 before | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 followed | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 see | obl |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 sprang | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 sprang | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sprang | nsubj |
| 32 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 sprang | advmod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sprang | obl |
| 36 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 garden | advmod |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 once | case |
| 38 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 all | obl |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 garden | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 garden | det |
| 41 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sprang | obl |
| 42 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 46 house | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 father | nmod:poss |
| 44 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 house | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 father | case |
| 46 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 garden | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | past | lady | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | lady not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | the king's son | here | before property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | might | son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | go | past | house | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | spring away | past | lady | the garden behind lady's father's house | from son; away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination |
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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