Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 17

He had not gone far before he met an old miser: close by them stood a tree, and on the topmost twig sat a thrush singing away most joyfully.

Who acts: friend, wishes, thrush · What happens: not go, meet, close, stand, sit, sing away · To what, where: old miser, tree, thrush, topmost twig

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 (friend, wishes, thrush), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 met	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 miser	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 miser	amod
11	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 close	punct
13	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 stood	mark
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 close	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 twig	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 twig	det
23	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 twig	amod
24	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stood	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thrush	det
27	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obj
28	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 thrush	acl
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 singing	advmod
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 joyfully	advmod
31	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	28 singing	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	friend			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	friend	a old miser			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miser=Co-Agent
3	close	infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	stand	past	wishes = wish	a tree			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
5	sit	past	wishes = wish not said here	a thrush	the topmost twig		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent thrush=Theme on twig=Location
6	sing away speech: express	gerund	a thrush not said here			away, joyfully property	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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