Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 101

Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he heard how she cried,

Who acts: son, enchantress · What happens: stand, see, come, hear, cry · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, enchantress), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 when	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 standing	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 standing	advmod
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 enchantress	det
15	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	advcl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 came	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	parataxis
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 cried	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cried	nsubj
24	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	son	a tree	thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location
2	see	past	son			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	past	a enchantress	there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past	son			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	cry speech: express	past	enchantress			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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