--- title: As she looked very pretty, and too delicate for a waiting-maid, he w… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As she looked very pretty, and too delicate for a waiting-maid, he went up into the royal chamber to ask the bride who it was she had brought with her, that was thus left standing in the court below. Who acts: maid, king, that. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/15/29/) [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/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/15/) / 29 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 29 As she looked very pretty, and too delicate for a waiting-maid, he went up into the royal chamber to ask the bride who it was she had brought with her, that was thus left standing in the court below. **Who acts:** maid, king, that · **What happens:** look, go up, ask, bring, leave, stand · **To what, where:** royal chamber, bride, that, court This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, king, that), 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:pg2591:15:29 # text = As she looked very pretty, and too delicate for a waiting-maid, he went up into the royal chamber to ask the bride who it was she had brought with her, that was thus left standing in the court below. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 38 thus thus ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 40 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 xcomp _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 below below ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | maid | | | | | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **go up** | past | king | | | the royal chamber | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | | the bride | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient | | 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | | the bride | | | | with maid | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | that | | | | thus *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | that *not said here* | | | the court | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location | 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/15/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/15/30/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/15/)