--- title: When they were half-way across Lily let the nut fall into the water,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When they were half-way across Lily let the nut fall into the water, and immediately a large nut-tree arose from the sea, whereon the griffin rested for a while, and then carried them safely home. Who acts: woes, nut, large nut tree, griffin. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/72/) [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/) / [Lily and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/) / 72 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 72 When they were half-way across Lily let the nut fall into the water, and immediately a large nut-tree arose from the sea, whereon the griffin rested for a while, and then carried them safely home. **Who acts:** woes, nut, large nut tree, griffin · **What happens:** be, let, fall, arise, rest, carry · **To what, where:** way, Lily, water, sea, woes This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woes, nut, large nut tree, griffin), 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:pg2591:44:72 # text = When they were half-way across Lily let the nut fall into the water, and immediately a large nut-tree arose from the sea, whereon the griffin rested for a while, and then carried them safely home. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 across across ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 9 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 whereon whereon ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 griffin griffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 rested rest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 39 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 safely safely ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 home home ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | woes *= woe* | way | | | | half *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | past | | | | Lily | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | infinitive | the nut | | | | | into the water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | | 4 | **arise** | past | a large nut tree | | | the sea | | immediately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **rest** | past | the griffin | | | | while | whereon *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | past | | woes *= woe* | | | then | home, safely *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/73/) - ↑ back to [Lily and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/)