Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 98

Then he waited till her father came home, and told him that the unknown maiden, who had been at the feast, had hid herself in the pigeon-house.

Who acts: prince, father, unknown maiden · What happens: wait, come, tell, be, have, hide · To what, where: prince, feast, maiden, pigeon house · Speech: someone speaks here

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, father, unknown maiden), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 waited	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	advcl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 maiden	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
15	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maiden	amod
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feast	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 feast	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 feast	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 feast	cop
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 feast	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 feast	det
23	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maiden	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
26	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	ccomp
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 hid	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
30	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 house	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 pigeon	punct
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	prince				then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	maiden's father					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	prince not said here		prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past · perfect	the unknown maiden			the feast			tree rules
5	have	past	prince not said here						tree rules
6	hide	past	prince not said here	maiden		the pigeon house			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in house=Location

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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