Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 62

When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.

Who acts: moon, Hansel, birds · What happens: come, set out, find, fly, pick up · To what, where: crumbs, woods, many thousands

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, Hansel, birds), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	advcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 crumbs	det
13	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thousands	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 thousands	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thousands	det
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thousands	amod
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 picked	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 birds	case
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thousands	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 fly	nsubj
22	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 birds	acl:relcl
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 fly	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 woods	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woods	det
26	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fly	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fields	cc
28	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 woods	conj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 picked	aux
30	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 found	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 picked	obj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 them	nmod:unmarked
33	up	up	ADV	_	30 picked	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the moon				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set out	past	Hansel				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	Hansel	no crumbs			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Topic
4	fly	present	birds		the woods and fields	about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
5	pick up	past · perfect · passive		the many thousands of birds			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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