Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 148
And when the dove had done its song, it came flying, and perched upon her right shoulder, and so went home with her.
Who acts: dove, side · What happens: do, come, fly, perch, go, sing · To what, where: song, right shoulder
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 (dove, side), 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 | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 done | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dove | det |
| 4 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 song | nmod:poss |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 came | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 perched | cc |
| 15 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 shoulder | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shoulder | amod |
| 19 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 perched | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | the dove | side's song | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | past | side | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | side not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perch | past | side not said here | bride's right shoulder | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Location | ||||
| 5 | go | past | side not said here | with bride; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | sing | side | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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