Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 18

So she roved about by herself, and looked at all the rooms and chambers, till at last she came to an old tower, to which there was a narrow staircase ending with a little door.

Who acts: princess, narrow staircase · What happens: rove, look, come, be, end · To what, where: old tower, narrow staircase

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, narrow staircase), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 roved	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 roved	nsubj
3	roved	rove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 roved	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 herself	case
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 roved	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roved	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 rooms	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 rooms	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rooms	det
13	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looked	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 chambers	cc
15	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rooms	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 last	case
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 came	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 staircase	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 tower	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tower	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tower	amod
25	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 was	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 was	obl
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 staircase	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 staircase	det
32	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 staircase	amod
33	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	parataxis
34	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 staircase	acl
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 door	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 door	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 door	amod
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ending	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rove	past	princess				by princess; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by herself=Trajectory
2	look	past	princess not said here				at all rooms and chambers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at room=Theme
3	come	past	princess		a old tower	till last		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tower=Initial_Location
4	is a	past		a narrow staircase				tree rules
5	end	gerund	a narrow staircase not said here				with a little door	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with door=Subeventuality

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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