--- title: This done, they were riding away well pleased, when up sprang a fier… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: This done, they were riding away well pleased, when up sprang a fierce lion, and roared out, ‘Whoever has stolen my roses shall be eaten up alive!’ Who acts: flowers. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/9/) [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/) / 9 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 9 This done, they were riding away well pleased, when up sprang a fierce lion, and roared out, ‘Whoever has stolen my roses shall be eaten up alive!’ **Who acts:** flowers · **What happens:** do, ride, spring, roar out, steal, eat up · **To what, where:** This, fierce lion, Whoever 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 (flowers), 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:pg2591:44:9 # text = This done, they were riding away well pleased, when up sprang a fierce lion, and roared out, ‘Whoever has stolen my roses shall be eaten up alive!’ 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 roared roar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | participle · passive | | This | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **ride** | past · progressive | flowers *= flower* | | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spring** | past | | a fierce lion | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location lion=Theme | | 4 | **roar out** | past | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **steal** | present · perfect · passive | | Whoever | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary rose=Theme | | 6 | **eat up** | shall · passive | | | | | | alive *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/10/) - ↑ back to [Lily and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/)