Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 54

The moon shone and they got up, but they could not see any crumbs, for the thousands of birds which had been flying about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.

Who acts: moon, wood, birds · What happens: shine, get up, not see, fly, pick up · To what, where: crumbs, thousands

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, wood, birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 got	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 picked	advcl
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 crumbs	det
15	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thousands	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 thousands	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thousands	det
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 picked	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 birds	case
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thousands	nmod
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 flying	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 flying	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 flying	aux
25	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 birds	acl:relcl
26	about	about	ADP	_	29 woods	case
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 woods	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woods	det
29	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 flying	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fields	cc
31	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 woods	conj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 picked	aux
33	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shone	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 picked	obj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 them	nmod:unmarked
36	up	up	ADV	_	33 picked	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the moon			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get up	past	wood			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	not see	could	wood	any crumbs		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crumb=Stimulus
4	fly	past · perfect · progressive	birds		about the woods and fields	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about wood=Location
5	pick up	past · perfect · passive		the thousands of birds		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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