Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 143
But the mother and both the sisters were frightened, and turned pale with anger as he took Ashputtel on his horse, and rode away with her.
Who acts: prince · What happens: frighten, turn, take, ride away · To what, where: mother, Ashputtel
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 (prince), 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 | _ | 9 frightened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sisters | cc |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sisters | det |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sisters | det |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mother | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | aux:pass |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | conj |
| 13 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 turned | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 anger | case |
| 15 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 took | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turned | advcl |
| 19 | Ashputtel | Ashputtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rode | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rode | cc |
| 25 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 rode | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rode | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the mother and both sisters | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | with anger; pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | prince | Ashputtel | on prince's horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ashputtel=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 4 | ride away | past | prince not said here | with mother; 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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