Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 144

And the birds of the air came too, and bemoaned Snowdrop; and first of all came an owl, and then a raven, and at last a dove, and sat by her side.

Who acts: birds, owl · What happens: come, bemoan, sit · To what, where: Snowdrop, raven

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, owl), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bemoaned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bemoaned	cc
11	bemoaned	bemoan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
12	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bemoaned	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 first	cc
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 came	advmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 first	obl
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 owl	det
20	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 raven	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 raven	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 raven	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 raven	det
25	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 last	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 last	cc
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 came	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 dove	det
31	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 last	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sat	cc
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 side	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 side	nmod:poss
37	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sat	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the birds of the air			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bemoan	past	the birds of the air not said here	Snowdrop		tree rules
3	come	past	a owl	a raven	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	past	the birds of the air not said here		by SNOWDROP's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location

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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