Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 180

But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Cinderella had planted, and there sat a little dove on the branch, singing--

Who acts: sons, Cinderella · What happens: have, pass, plant, sit, sing · To what, where: way, little dove, branch

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 (sons, Cinderella), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 way	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 way	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pass	mark
9	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 hazel	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pass	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 planted	mark
16	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 planted	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 planted	aux
18	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 pass	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 sat	expl
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dove	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dove	amod
25	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 branch	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 branch	det
28	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 singing	punct
30	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	sons = son		sons's way		tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here			by the hazel tree	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tree=Location
3	plant	past · perfect	Cinderella				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	sons = son not said here	a little dove	the branch; there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme on branch=Location
5	sing speech: express	gerund	sons = son not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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