Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 59

It soon ceased, and spreading its wings flew off; and they followed it until it arrived at a cottage, upon the roof of which it perched; and when they went close up to it they saw that the cottage was made of bread and cakes, and the window-panes were of clear sugar.

Who acts: help, spreading, wood, window panes · What happens: cease, spread, fly off, follow, arrive, perch · To what, where: wings, help, cottage · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (help, spreading, wood, window panes), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ceased	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ceased	advmod
3	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
6	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 flew	csubj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wings	nmod:poss
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spreading	obj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ceased	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 flew	compound:prt
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 followed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 followed	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 followed	nsubj
14	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ceased	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 followed	obj
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 arrived	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 arrived	nsubj
18	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 followed	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 cottage	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cottage	det
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arrived	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 roof	punct
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 roof	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 roof	det
25	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arrived	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 perched	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 perched	nsubj
29	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 roof	acl:relcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 went	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ceased	parataxis
35	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 went	xcomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 close	compound:prt
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	obl
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 saw	nsubj
40	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 went	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 made	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 cottage	det
43	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 made	aux:pass
45	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 saw	ccomp
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 bread	case
47	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 cakes	cc
49	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 bread	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 sugar	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 sugar	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 panes	det
53	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 panes	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 window	punct
55	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 sugar	nsubj
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 sugar	cop
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 sugar	case
58	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 sugar	amod
59	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	help				soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	spread	gerund		help's wings				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	fly off	past	spreading					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	past	wood	help				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	arrive	past	help			a cottage		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	perch	past	help				of the roof	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past	wood		help			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	close up	infinitive	wood not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	see	past	wood					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	make	past · passive		the cottage			of bread and cakes	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
11	is	past	the window panes				of clear sugar	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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