Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 26

Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully.

Who acts: hand · What happens: go, find, glitter, sparkle · To what, where: all, hand, bottom

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 down	advmod
2	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 bottom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 found	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 grove	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grove	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 delightful	advmod
17	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grove	amod
18	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grove	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 all	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 all	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 leaves	det
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 all	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 all	cop
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 went	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 silver	case
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 all	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 glittered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 glittered	cc
31	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sparkled	cc
33	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 glittered	conj
34	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	33 sparkled	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	hand	all		down property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	hand	hand	the bottom	in a delightful grove of trees	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at bottom=Asset
3	glitter	participle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sparkle	participle				beautifully property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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