Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 11

But God sent two angels from heaven in the shape of white doves, which flew to her twice a day, and carried her food until the seven years were over.

Who acts: God, white doves · What happens: send, fly, carry, be · To what, where: two angels, heaven, angel, food

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, white doves), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 sent	cc
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 angels	nummod
5	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 heaven	case
7	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 shape	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shape	det
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 doves	case
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 doves	amod
13	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shape	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flew	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 flew	nsubj
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 doves	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flew	obl
19	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 day	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flew	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 carried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 carried	cc
24	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 food	nmod:poss
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carried	obj
27	until	until	ADP	_	30 years	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 years	det
29	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 over	obl
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 over	cop
32	over	over	ADV	_	24 carried	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	God	two angels		heaven		in the shape of white doves	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme in shape=Destination
2	fly	past	white doves		angel		day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result
3	carry	past	God not said here	angel's food					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
4	is	past					year	over property	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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