Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 19
Close by them lay a lamb, and a white pigeon, with its head tucked under its wing, was on a perch behind.
Who acts: you, girls · What happens: close, lie, tuck, be · To what, where: white pigeon, lamb, head, wing, perch
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girls), 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 | Close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 lay | mark |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Close | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lamb | det |
| 6 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pigeon | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pigeon | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pigeon | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pigeon | amod |
| 11 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Close | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pigeon | appos |
| 16 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 head | acl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 wing | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wing | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tucked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 perch | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 perch | cop |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 perch | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 perch | det |
| 24 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Close | obl |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 24 perch | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | imperative | you not said here | a white pigeon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | girls = girl | a lamb | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lamb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tuck | participle | pigeon's head not said here | head's wing | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent under wing=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a perch | behind property | tree rules |
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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