Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 97

Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stood still and listened.

Who acts: son, song · What happens: hear, charm, stand, listen · To what, where: song

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, song), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 charming	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 charming	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 charming	aux
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 charming	advmod
10	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 song	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 stood	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	advcl
14	still	still	ADV	_	13 stood	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 listened	cc
16	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past	son	a song	then	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
2	charm	past · progressive	a song			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	stand	past	son		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	past	son not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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