Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 27

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.

Who acts: son, golden bird, three golden apples · What happens: say, go in, find, hang, stand, lose · To what, where: fox, chamber, wooden cage, golden cage, three golden apples · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, golden bird, three golden apples), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	4 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gate	compound
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
5	all	all	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	aux:pass
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	aux
11	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 son	det
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chamber	det
21	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 hung	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bird	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bird	amod
25	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hung	nsubj
26	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 chamber	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 cage	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cage	det
29	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cage	amod
30	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hung	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stood	cc
33	below	below	ADV	_	34 stood	advmod
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cage	det
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cage	amod
37	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 lying	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 lying	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 apples	det
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 apples	nummod
42	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 apples	amod
43	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 lying	nsubj
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 lost	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 lost	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 lost	aux:pass
47	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 apples	acl:relcl
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 lying	aux
49	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 stood	advcl
50	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 lying	advmod
51	by	by	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lying	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the fox		before the castle gate	all property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	go in	past	the son					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	the son not said here	the chamber				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Topic
4	hang	participle	the golden bird		a wooden cage			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location
5	stand	past	the son not said here	the golden cage			below property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cage=Stimulus
6	lose	past · perfect · passive		the three golden apples				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	lie	past · progressive	the three golden apples				by bird; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location

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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