--- title: But she slipped away from him, unawares, and ran off towards home; a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But she slipped away from him, unawares, and ran off towards home; and as the prince followed her, she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door. Who acts: maiden, prince. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/97/) [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 Miser in the Bush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/) / 97 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 97 But she slipped away from him, unawares, and ran off towards home; and as the prince followed her, she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door. **Who acts:** maiden, prince · **What happens:** slip away, run off, follow, jump up, shut · **To what, where:** unawares, home, maiden, pigeon house, door This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, prince), 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:pg2591:33:97 # text = But she slipped away from him, unawares, and ran off towards home; and as the prince followed her, she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 unawares unaware NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 towards towards ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 shut shut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slip away** | past | maiden | unawares | | | | from son; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from he=Co-Patient | | 2 | **run off** | past | maiden *not said here* | | | home | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=Destination | | 3 | **follow** | past | the prince | maiden | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **jump up** | past | maiden | | | | | into the pigeon house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | | 5 | **shut** | infinitive | maiden *not said here* | the door | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | 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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/98/) - ↑ back to [The Miser in the Bush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/)