Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 10

Meanwhile the smell of the jam rose to the ceiling, where many flies were sitting, and enticed them down, so that soon a great swarm of them had pitched on the bread. "

Who acts: smell, many flies, jam · What happens: rise, sit, entice down, pitch, smell · To what, where: ceiling, flies, great swarm, bread

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, many flies, jam), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	7 rose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smell	det
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rose	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 jam	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jam	det
6	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	nmod
7	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 ceiling	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ceiling	det
10	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rose	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 sitting	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flies	amod
14	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sitting	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sitting	aux
16	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ceiling	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 enticed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 enticed	cc
19	enticed	entice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rose	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 enticed	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 enticed	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pitched	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 pitched	mark
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 so	fixed
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 swarm	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 swarm	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 swarm	amod
28	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pitched	nsubj:pass
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 swarm	nmod
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pitched	aux
32	pitched	pitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 enticed	parataxis
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 bread	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bread	det
35	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pitched	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the smell of the jam		the ceiling	meanwhile property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ceiling=Initial_Location
2	sit	past · progressive	many flies				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	entice down	past	the smell of the jam not said here	flies = fly			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	pitch	past · perfect · passive		a great swarm of flies	the bread		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on bread=Destination
5	smell		the jam				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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