--- title: Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards the ship; but soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air; for he awoke and missed the princess. Who acts: brothers, dragon, beast. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/44/) [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 Four Clever Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/) / 44 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 44 Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards the ship; but soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air; for he awoke and missed the princess. **Who acts:** brothers, dragon, beast · **What happens:** hasten, come, roar, awake, miss · **To what, where:** boat, dragon, air, princess This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, dragon, beast), 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:pg2591:43:44 # text = Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards the ship; but soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air; for he awoke and missed the princess. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hastened hasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 towards towards ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 behind behind ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hasten** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | brothers's boat towards the ship | | away, full *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Trajectory | | 2 | **come** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | the dragon | | | | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dragon=Theme | | 3 | **roar** | gerund | the dragon *not said here* | | | the air | | behind brothers *= brother* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location | | 4 | **awake** | past | beast | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **miss** | past | beast *not said here* | the princess | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/45/) - ↑ back to [The Four Clever Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/)