--- title: Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree and brought a gold and… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast. Who acts: friend. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/154/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/) / 154 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 154 Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast. **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** fly out, bring, spangle, put on, follow · **To what, where:** tree, gold, slippers, sisters, feast This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:15:154 # text = Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 spangled spangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly out** | past | CINDERELLA's friend | the tree | | | then | slippers of spangled silk *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | past | CINDERELLA's friend *not said here* | a gold and silver dress | | | | for CINDERELLA | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 3 | **spangle** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put on** | past | friend | slippers *= slipper* | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | | 5 | **follow** | past | CINDERELLA's friend *not said here* | CINDERELLA's sisters | | the feast | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to feast=Trajectory | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/153/) - next →: [sentence 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/155/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/)