Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 97
But she slipped away from him, unawares, and ran off towards home; and as the prince followed her, she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door.
Who acts: maiden, prince · What happens: slip away, run off, follow, jump up, shut · To what, where: unawares, home, maiden, pigeon house, door
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 (maiden, 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 | _ | 3 slipped | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 slipped | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slipped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unawares | punct |
| 8 | unawares | unaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slipped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 ran | compound:prt |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 followed | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 followed | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 followed | nsubj |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 jumped | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 jumped | nsubj |
| 24 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | parataxis |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 jumped | compound:prt |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 28 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 house | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 pigeon | punct |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jumped | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 shut | cc |
| 32 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 jumped | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shut | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip away | past | maiden | unawares | from son; away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from he=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | run off | past | maiden not said here | home | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=Destination | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | the prince | maiden | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump up | past | maiden | into the pigeon house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | ||||
| 5 | shut | infinitive | maiden not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=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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