--- title: She obeyed, and went away and cut an ice-hole; and while she was cut… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: She obeyed, and went away and cut an ice-hole; and while she was cutting, an elegant carriage came by, in which the King sat. The carriage stopped, and the King asked, "My child, who are you? and what do you here?" " Who acts: mother, elegant carriage, sat., King. 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" **Who acts:** mother, elegant carriage, sat., King, you · **What happens:** obey, go away, cut, come by, stop, ask · **To what, where:** ice hole, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, elegant carriage, sat., King), 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:pg11027:24:59 # text = She obeyed, and went away and cut an ice-hole; and while she was cutting, an elegant carriage came by, in which the King sat. The carriage stopped, and the King asked, "My child, who are you? and what do you here?" " 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 obeyed obey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 elegant elegant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:desc _ _ 30 sat. Saturday PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 44 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 52 nsubj _ _ 45 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 52 nsubj _ _ 50 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ? ? PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **obey** | past | mother | | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go away** | past | mother *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cut** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | a ice hole | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | | 4 | **cut** | past · progressive | mother | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **come by** | past | a elegant carriage | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stop** | past | the sat. King | | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the King | My child | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | My child | | | | | tree rules | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/60/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/)