Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 11

In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to where the flies were sitting in great numbers, and they were attracted and descended on it in hosts.

Who acts: smell, flies, sweet jam · What happens: rise, sit, attract, descend, smell · To what, where: meantime, great numbers, flies, smell

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, flies, sweet jam), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 jam	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jam	det
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jam	amod
9	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	nmod
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	SCONJ	_	16 sitting	mark
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 sitting	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 flies	det
14	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sitting	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sitting	aux
16	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 rose	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 numbers	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 numbers	amod
19	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sitting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 attracted	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 attracted	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 attracted	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 attracted	aux:pass
24	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 rose	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 descended	cc
26	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 attracted	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 descended	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 hosts	case
30	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 descended	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the smell of the sweet jam		the meantime		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location
2	sit	past · progressive	the flies		great numbers		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in number=Location
3	attract	past · passive		flies = fly			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	descend	participle			smell	in hosts	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	smell		the sweet jam				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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