Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 144
And when they came to the hazel-tree, the white dove sang:
Who acts: sisters, white dove · What happens: come, sing · To what, where: hazel tree
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 (sisters, white dove), 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 | _ | 14 sang | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sang | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hazel | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dove | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dove | amod |
| 13 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sang | nsubj |
| 14 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | sisters = sister | the hazel tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the white dove | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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