Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 129
But her mother squeezed it in till the blood came, and took her to the king’s son: and he set her as his bride by his side on his horse, and rode away with her.
Who acts: mother, blood, son · What happens: squeeze, come, take, set, ride away · To what, where: foot, bride, son
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 (mother, blood, son), 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 | _ | 4 squeezed | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squeezed | nsubj |
| 4 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 squeezed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blood | det |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 squeezed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 squeezed | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 bride | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bride | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 side | nmod:poss |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 horse | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 horse | nmod:poss |
| 33 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rode | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rode | cc |
| 36 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | conj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 rode | advmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 rode | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 squeezed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | past | bride's mother | foot | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the blood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | bride's mother not said here | bride | the king's son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to son=Destination | |||
| 4 | set | past | son | bride | as son's bride; by son's side; on son's horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 5 | ride away | past | son not said here | with bride; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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