Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 1

Once in summer-time the bear and the wolf were walking in the forest, and the bear heard a bird singing so beautifully that he said: ‘Brother wolf, what bird is it that sings so well?’

Who acts: bear, bird · What happens: walk, hear, sing, say, be · To what, where: forest, bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, bird), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 walking	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 time	case
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 summer	punct
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wolf	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bear	conj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walking	aux
12	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bear	det
19	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walking	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bird	det
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obj
23	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 bird	acl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 beautifully	advmod
25	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	23 singing	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 said	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 singing	advcl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 wolf	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 wolf	punct
31	Brother	brother	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wolf	amod
32	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sings	punct
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 sings	obj
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sings	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 sings	cop
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sings	nsubj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 sings	nsubj
39	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 wolf	conj
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 well	advmod
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 sings	advmod
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 walking	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	the bear and the wolf		the forest	time	once property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory
2	hear	past	the bear	a bird				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	gerund	a bird not said here				beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	bird					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	bird				sing, well property	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: «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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