--- title: But she slipped away from him unawares, and ran off towards home, an… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: But she slipped away from him unawares, and ran off towards home, and the prince followed her; then she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door. Who acts: maid, prince. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/158/) [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/) / 158 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 158 But she slipped away from him unawares, and ran off towards home, and the prince followed her; then she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door. **Who acts:** maid, prince · **What happens:** slip away, run off, follow, jump up, shut · **To what, where:** unawares, home, maid, pigeon house, door 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 (maid, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:15:158 # text = But she slipped away from him unawares, and ran off towards home, and the prince followed her; then she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 7 unawares unaware NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 shut shut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slip away** | past | maid | unawares | | | | from King; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent unaware=Patient from he=Co-Patient | | 2 | **run off** | past | maid *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 | maid | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **jump up** | past | maid | | | | then | into the pigeon house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | | 5 | **shut** | infinitive | maid *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:** «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 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/159/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/)