--- title: Then the king's son waited till her father came home, and said to hi… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king's son waited till her father came home, and said to him, "The unknown lady has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung into the pear-tree." Who acts: son, father, unknown lady. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/165/) [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/) / 165 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 165 Then the king's son waited till her father came home, and said to him, "The unknown lady has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung into the pear-tree." **Who acts:** son, father, unknown lady · **What happens:** wait, come, say, slip away, think, spring · **To what, where:** Father, lady, pear tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (son, father, unknown lady), 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:pg11027:15:165 # text = Then the king's son waited till her father came home, and said to him, "The unknown lady has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung into the pear-tree." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 till till SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 home home ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 slipped slip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux _ _ 32 sprung spring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 pear pear NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | the king's son | | | | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | CINDERELLA's father | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king's son *not said here* | | Father | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 4 | **slip away** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the unknown lady | | | | | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the king's son *= son* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **spring** *in a quote* | must · perfect · passive | | lady | | the pear tree | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/164/) - next →: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/166/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/)