Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 188

But when they came to the hazel-tree, the little dove sat there still, and sang as before.

Who acts: sons, little dove · What happens: come, sit, sing · To what, where: hazel tree

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, little dove), 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	_	14 sat	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
7	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hazel	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dove	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dove	amod
13	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sat	advmod
16	still	still	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sang	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sang	cc
19	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 before	case
21	before	before	ADV	_	19 sang	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	sons = son	the hazel tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	the little dove	there	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	the little dove not said here			before property	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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