Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 62

Three times every day she went to it and cried; and soon a little bird came and built its nest upon the tree, and talked with her, and watched over her, and brought her whatever she wished for.

Who acts: twig, little bird · What happens: go, cry, come, build, talk, watch · To what, where: hat, nest, whatever, 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 (twig, little 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	obl:unmarked
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 came	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bird	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bird	amod
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 built	cc
19	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nest	nmod:poss
21	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 built	obj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 built	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 talked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 talked	cc
27	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 talked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 watched	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 watched	cc
32	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 talked	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 watched	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 brought	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 brought	cc
37	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brought	obj
39	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 brought	obj
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wished	nsubj
41	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 whatever	acl:relcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	41 wished	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	twig			hat	day; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	past	twig not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	a little bird					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	build	past	a little bird not said here	hat's nest				upon the tree	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
5	talk	past	a little bird not said here					with twig	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent
6	watch	past	a little bird not said here					over twig	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location
7	bring	past	a little bird not said here	whatever	twig				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination whatever=Theme
8	wish	past	twig						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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