Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 68

When it was mid-day, they saw a beautiful snow-white bird sitting on a bough, which sang so delightfully that they stood still and listened to it.

Who acts: help, Hansel, beautiful snow white bird, bough · What happens: be, see, sit, sing, stand, listen · To what, where: mid-day, beautiful snow white bird, bough, help

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 (help, Hansel, beautiful snow white bird, bough), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 mid-day	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mid-day	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mid-day	cop
4	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mid-day	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bird	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bird	amod
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bird	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 snow	punct
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bird	amod
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 bird	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bough	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bough	det
17	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sang	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 sang	nsubj
20	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bough	acl:relcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 delightfully	advmod
22	delightfully	delightfully	ADV	_	20 sang	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 stood	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stood	nsubj
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sang	advcl
26	still	still	ADV	_	25 stood	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 listened	cc
28	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stood	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 listened	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	help	mid-day					tree rules
2	see	past	Hansel	a beautiful snow white bird					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a beautiful snow white bird not said here			a bough			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location
4	sing speech: express	past	a bough					delightfully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stand	past	Hansel				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	listen	past	Hansel not said here		help				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=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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