Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 7

Then Dummling, sitting down and feeling rather miserable after his brothers had gone, looked about him, and noticed that near to where his feather lay was a trap-door.

Who acts: Dummling, brothers, feather · What happens: sit down, feel, go, look, notice, lie · To what, where: trap door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, brothers, feather), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sitting	advmod
2	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 looked	advcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 sitting	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feeling	cc
7	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sitting	conj
8	rather	rather	ADV	_	9 miserable	advmod
9	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feeling	xcomp
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brothers	nmod:poss
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 feeling	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 noticed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 noticed	cc
21	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 lay	mark
23	near	near	ADP	_	25 where	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 where	case
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 lay	advmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feather	nmod:poss
27	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 noticed	ccomp
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 door	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 door	det
31	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 trap	punct
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	gerund	Dummling		then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	gerund	Dummling not said here			miserable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	go	past · perfect	Dummling's brothers				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	past				about Dummling	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
5	notice	past					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	lie	past	Dummling's feather				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	Dummling's feather not said here	a trap door			tree rules

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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