Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 31

They settled on the ground and began blowing one another until they had blown all their feathers off, and their swan's down slipped from them like a shirt.

Who acts: Swans, down · What happens: settle, begin, blow, slip · To what, where: one, feathers

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 (Swans, down), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 settled	nsubj
2	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 settled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 settled	conj
8	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 began	xcomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 blowing	obj
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	fixed
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 blown	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 blown	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 blown	aux
14	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 began	xcomp
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 feathers	det:predet
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feathers	nmod:poss
17	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blown	obj
18	off	off	ADV	_	14 blown	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slipped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slipped	cc
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 swan	nmod:poss
22	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 down	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 swan	case
24	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slipped	nsubj
25	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 settled	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 slipped	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 shirt	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shirt	det
30	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slipped	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	settle	past	Swans = swan		on the ground	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on ground=Topic
2	begin	past	Swans = swan not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	blow	gerund	Swans = swan not said here	one		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	blow	past · perfect	Swans = swan	Swans's feathers	off property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
5	slip	past	Swans's swan's down		from Swans = swan; like a shirt	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from they=Co-Patient

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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