Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 103

And the bird came and brought a still finer dress than the one she had worn the day before.

Who acts: bird · What happens: come, bring, wear · To what, where: finer dress, one

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brought	cc
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dress	det
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 finer	advmod
9	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 dress	amod
10	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 worn	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 worn	aux
16	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 one	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 worn	obl:unmarked
19	before	before	ADV	_	16 worn	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the bird				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	the bird not said here	a finer dress		than the one	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
3	wear	past · perfect	bird	the one not said here	day	before property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source

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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