Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 6

The fowls began to turn brown, and were nearly ready, but the guest had not yet arrived.

Who acts: fowls · What happens: begin, turn, be, not arrive · To what, where: guest

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowls), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fowls	det
2	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 turn	mark
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ready	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ready	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ready	cop
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 ready	advmod
11	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arrived	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 arrived	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guest	det
15	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arrived	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 arrived	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 arrived	advmod
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 arrived	advmod
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the fowls				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	turn	to-infinitive	the fowls not said here			brown property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the fowls not said here			nearly, ready property	tree rules
4	not arrive	past · perfect · passive		the guest	yet		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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