Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 24

Ah, dear father," she replied, "they are gone away and have left me alone"; and she told him how she had looked out of the window and seen them changed into Swans, which had flown over the forest; and then she showed him the feathers which they had dropped in the courtyard, and which she had collected together.

Who acts: Queen, brothers · What happens: reply, be, leave, tell, look out, see · To what, where: me, King, window, brothers, Swans, forest · 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 (Queen, brothers), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 father	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 father	amod
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 replied	nsubj
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	cop
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 replied	parataxis
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 left	aux
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 gone	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 left	iobj
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 left	advmod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 looked	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looked	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 looked	aux
29	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 told	ccomp
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 window	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 window	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 window	det
33	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looked	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seen	cc
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 changed	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seen	obj
37	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 looked	conj
38	into	into	ADP	_	39 Swans	case
39	Swans	Swan	PROPN	Number=Plur	37 changed	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 flown	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 flown	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 flown	aux
43	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 Swans	acl
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 forest	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 forest	det
46	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flown	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 showed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 showed	cc
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 showed	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 showed	nsubj
51	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 showed	iobj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 feathers	det
54	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 showed	obj
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 dropped	nsubj:pass
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 dropped	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 dropped	aux
58	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 feathers	acl:relcl
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 courtyard	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 courtyard	det
61	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 dropped	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 collected	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 collected	cc
64	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 collected	nsubj:pass
65	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 collected	nsubj
66	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 collected	aux
67	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 showed	parataxis
68	together	together	ADV	_	67 collected	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	Queen						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	brothers = brother					away, go property	tree rules
3	leave	present · perfect	brothers = brother not said here		me			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Queen		King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	look out in a quote	past · perfect	Queen	the window					tree rules
6	see in a quote	participle		brothers = brother					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
7	change in a quote	past	Queen not said here	Swans					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Patient
8	fly in a quote	past · perfect · passive		Swans		the forest			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme over forest=Location
9	show in a quote	past	Queen	the feathers	King		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient feather=Topic
10	drop in a quote	past · perfect · passive		the feathers		the courtyard			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in courtyard=Destination
11	collect in a quote	past · perfect · passive						together property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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