--- title: Now when night came she wanted to go home; and the king's son would… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Now when night came she wanted to go home; and the king's son would go with her, but she managed to slip away from him, though in such a hurry that she dropped her left golden slipper upon the stairs. Who acts: night, lady, son. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, lady, son), 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:pg11027:15:171 # text = Now when night came she wanted to go home; and the king's son would go with her, but she managed to slip away from him, though in such a hurry that she dropped her left golden slipper upon the stairs. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 though though SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 34 det:predet _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 39 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 slipper slipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 upon upon ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | night | | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **want** | past | lady | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | would | the king's son | | | | | with lady | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | | 5 | **manage** | past | lady | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **slip away** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | | | | | from King; in such hurry; away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hurry=Attribute | | 7 | **drop** | past | lady | lady's left golden slipper | | the stairs | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme upon stair=Destination | 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 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/170/) - next →: [sentence 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/172/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/)