--- title: Then he sprang up hastily, raised her up and bore her to a chamber,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then he sprang up hastily, raised her up and bore her to a chamber, where he laid her down, kneeled beside her, and drawing the three drops of blood out of her right breast, threw them away. Who acts: John. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/86/) [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/) / [Faithful John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/) / 86 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 86 Then he sprang up hastily, raised her up and bore her to a chamber, where he laid her down, kneeled beside her, and drawing the three drops of blood out of her right breast, threw them away. **Who acts:** John · **What happens:** spring up, raise up, bear, lay down, kneele, draw · **To what, where:** bride, three drops, right breast, drops This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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:pg11027:16:86 # text = Then he sprang up hastily, raised her up and bore her to a chamber, where he laid her down, kneeled beside her, and drawing the three drops of blood out of her right breast, threw them away. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 advmod _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 kneeled kneele VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 24 beside beside ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 28 drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 out out ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 40 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 away away ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spring up** | past | John | | | | then | hastily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **raise up** | past | | bride | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 3 | **bear** | past | | bride | | | | to a chamber | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 4 | **lay down** | past | John | bride | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Result | | 5 | **kneele** | participle | John *not said here* | | | | | beside bride | tree rules | | 6 | **draw** | gerund | | the three drops of blood | | bride's right breast | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme out breast=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **throw away** | past | John *not said here* | drops *= drop* | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/87/) - ↑ back to [Faithful John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/)