Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 57

‘I went alone through a forest and came at last to a house; not a soul could I find within, but a bird that was hanging in a cage on the wall cried:

Who acts: I, soul, bird · What happens: go, come, not find, hang, cry · To what, where: forest, last, cage

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 (I, soul, bird), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cried	advcl
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 last	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 find	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 soul	det
18	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
22	within	within	ADP	_	21 find	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cried	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 cried	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bird	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cried	nsubj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 hanging	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hanging	aux
29	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 bird	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 cage	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cage	det
32	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hanging	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 wall	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wall	det
35	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hanging	obl
36	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	I	a forest	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location
2	come	past	I not said here	last		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	not find	could	a soul			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	hang	past · progressive	a bird	a cage	on the wall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location
5	cry speech: express	past	a bird			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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