Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 58

At about noonday they saw a beautiful snow-white bird sitting upon a bough, which sang so sweetly that they stood still and listened to it.

Who acts: wood, beautiful snow white bird, bough · What happens: see, sit, sing, stand, listen · To what, where: beautiful snow white bird, noonday, bough

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 (wood, beautiful snow white bird, bough), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 noonday	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 noonday	advmod
3	noonday	noonday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snow	punct
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bird	acl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 bough	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bough	det
15	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sang	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sang	nsubj
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bough	acl:relcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 sweetly	advmod
20	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	18 sang	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 stood	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sang	advcl
24	still	still	ADV	_	23 stood	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 listened	cc
26	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stood	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 listened	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	wood	a beautiful snow white bird		noonday			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	sit	gerund	a beautiful snow white bird not said here			a bough			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bough=Location
3	sing speech: express	past	a bough					sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	wood				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	listen	past	wood not said here		bough				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/58/