Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 77

One morning, not long after the springing up of the apple-tree, the three sisters were all standing together beneath it, when in the distance a young Knight was seen riding toward them. "

Who acts: three sisters, young Knight · What happens: spring, stand together, see, ride · To what, where: tree, young Knight

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sisters, young Knight), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 up	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 up	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 up	det
8	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 up	amod
9	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 apple	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 up	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 standing	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sisters	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sisters	nummod
18	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 standing	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	aux
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 standing	advmod
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 up	conj
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 standing	advmod
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 standing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seen	punct
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 seen	mark
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 distance	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 distance	det
29	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seen	obl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Knight	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Knight	amod
32	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seen	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux:pass
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 standing	advcl
35	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 seen	xcomp
36	toward	toward	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 riding	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	gerund					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand together	past · progressive	the three sisters		tree	all, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location
3	see	past · passive		a young Knight		in the distance	tree rules
4	ride	gerund	a young Knight not said here			toward boughs = bough	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward they=Trajectory

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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