Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 79
First of all came an owl, and then a raven, but at last came a dove.
Who acts: owl · What happens: come · To what, where: raven, dove, last
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 First | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 owl | det |
| 6 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 raven | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 raven | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 raven | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 raven | det |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | obl |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dove | det |
| 18 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a owl | a raven | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | a owl not said here | a dove | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=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: «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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