--- title: A little farther on he came to a room wherein stood a beautiful maid… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: A little farther on he came to a room wherein stood a beautiful maiden, who was so pleased to see him that she kissed him and said he had freed her, and should have her whole kingdom, and if he came in another year their wedding should be celebrated. Who acts: Prince, road, year, fingers. A sentence --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/26/) [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 Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/) / 26 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 26 A little farther on he came to a room wherein stood a beautiful maiden, who was so pleased to see him that she kissed him and said he had freed her, and should have her whole kingdom, and if he came in another year their wedding should be celebrated. **Who acts:** Prince, road, year, fingers · **What happens:** come, stand, be, see, kiss, say · **To what, where:** room, Prince, whole kingdom, wedding · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, road, year, fingers), 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:pg11027:17:26 # text = A little farther on he came to a room wherein stood a beautiful maiden, who was so pleased to see him that she kissed him and said he had freed her, and should have her whole kingdom, and if he came in another year their wedding should be celebrated. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 3 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 4 on on SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 freed free VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 47 det _ _ 47 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 celebrated celebrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Prince | | | a room | | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **stand** | past | Prince *not said here* | | | | | maiden, wherein *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | | Prince | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 5 | **kiss** | past | road | Prince | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | road *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **free** | past · perfect · passive | | Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **have** | should | Prince *not said here* | road's whole kingdom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | | 9 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Prince | | | | year | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **celebrate** | should · passive | another year *not said here* | fingers's wedding | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 11 | **wed** | | fingers *= finger* | | | | | | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/27/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)