Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 9

Then, when the bird came home and had laid aside his burden, they sat down to table, and when they had finished their meal, they could sleep their fill till the following morning: and that was really a very delightful life.

Who acts: bird, mouse, that · What happens: come, lay, sit down, finish, sleep, follow · To what, where: meal, fill, delightful life

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, mouse, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laid	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laid	aux
10	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 came	conj
11	aside	aside	ADP	_	13 burden	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 burden	nmod:poss
13	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 table	case
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 finished	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 finished	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 finished	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 finished	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 finished	aux
25	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 sat	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 meal	nmod:poss
27	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 finished	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sleep	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sleep	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 sleep	aux
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fill	nmod:poss
33	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sleep	obj
34	till	till	ADP	_	37 morning	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 morning	det
36	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 morning	amod
37	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sleep	obl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 life	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 life	cc
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 life	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 life	cop
42	really	really	ADV	_	46 life	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 life	det
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 delightful	advmod
45	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 life	amod
46	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the bird		then	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past · perfect	the bird not said here			aside bird's burden	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	mouse			to table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	finish	past · perfect	mouse	mouse's meal			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meal=Eventuality
5	sleep	could	mouse	mouse's fill	morning		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Theme
6	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past	that	a delightful life			tree rules
8	burden		bird				nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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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