Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 144

Then first came two white doves; and next two turtle-doves; and after them all the little birds under heaven came, and the little doves stooped their heads down and set to work, pick, pick, pick; and then the others began to pick, pick, pick, and picked out all the good grain and put it into a dish, and left the ashes.

Who acts: little doves, others · What happens: come, stoop down, set, work, pick, begin · To what, where: two white doves, heads, good grain, grain, dish, ashes

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little doves, others), 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	3 came	advmod
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 doves	nummod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 doves	amod
6	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 doves	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 doves	cc
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 doves	amod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 doves	nummod
11	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doves	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 turtle	punct
13	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 birds	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 birds	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 birds	amod
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 them	appos
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 heaven	case
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 birds	nmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stooped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stooped	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 doves	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 doves	amod
29	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stooped	nsubj
30	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heads	nmod:poss
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stooped	obj
33	down	down	ADV	_	30 stooped	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 set	cc
35	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 stooped	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 work	mark
37	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 set	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pick	punct
39	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 set	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pick	punct
41	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 pick	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pick	punct
43	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	41 pick	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 began	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 began	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 began	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 others	det
48	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 began	nsubj
49	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 pick	mark
51	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 began	xcomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 pick	punct
53	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 pick	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 pick	punct
55	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 pick	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 picked	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 picked	cc
58	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 began	parataxis
59	out	out	ADP	_	58 picked	compound:prt
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	63 grain	det:predet
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 grain	det
62	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 grain	amod
63	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 picked	obj
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 put	cc
65	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 picked	conj
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 put	obj
67	into	into	ADP	_	69 dish	case
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 dish	det
69	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 put	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 left	punct
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 left	cc
72	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 ashes	det
74	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 left	obj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		two white doves		then	next two turtle doves obl; first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme
2	come	past				after doves = dove		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stoop down	past	the little doves	doves's heads			down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
4	set	infinitive	the little doves not said here					tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pick	infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	pick	infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	pick	infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	begin	past	the others			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	pick	to-infinitive	the others not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	pick	infinitive	the others not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	pick	infinitive	the others not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	pick out	participle		all good grain				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient
14	put	infinitive		grain	a dish			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
15	leave	past		the ashes				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=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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