Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 48

They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.

Who acts: sleepers · What happens: find, scatter, sprout, grow, guide · To what, where: ashes, peas, ground, sleepers, moonlight

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleepers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ashes	det
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ashes	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sprouted	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sprouted	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peas	det
12	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sprouted	nsubj:pass
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lentils	cc
14	lentils	lentil	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 peas	conj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sprouted	aux
16	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grown	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grown	cc
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sprouted	conj
20	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	19 grown	advmod
21	above	above	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grown	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 guide	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 guide	mark
26	guide	guide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 guide	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 moonlight	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moonlight	det
30	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 guide	obl
31	along	along	ADP	_	33 path	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 path	det
33	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 guide	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	sleepers = sleeper	the ashes			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Topic
2	scatter	participle		the ashes not said here		by the wind	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by wind=Destination
3	sprout	past · perfect · passive		the peas and lentils			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source
4	grow	participle			the ground	sufficiently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above ground=Location
5	guide	to-infinitive		sleepers = sleeper	the moonlight	along the path	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in moonlight=Destination

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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