Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 73

Then first came two white doves, flying in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and fluttering in: and they flew down into the ashes.

Who acts: doves · What happens: come, fly in, chirp, flutter, fly down · To what, where: two white doves, kitchen window, two turtle doves, little birds, heaven, ashes

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 (doves), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 doves	nummod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 doves	amod
6	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flying	punct
8	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 flying	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 window	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 window	compound
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flying	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
15	next	next	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 doves	nummod
18	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 doves	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 turtle	punct
20	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 came	mark
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 birds	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 birds	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 birds	amod
29	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 came	obj
30	under	under	ADP	_	31 heaven	case
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 birds	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chirping	punct
33	chirping	chirp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 came	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fluttering	cc
35	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 chirping	conj
36	in	in	ADV	_	35 fluttering	advmod
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 flew	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 flew	cc
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 flew	nsubj
40	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
41	down	down	ADV	_	40 flew	advmod
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 ashes	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ashes	det
44	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 flew	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		two white doves		then	first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme
2	fly in	gerund			the kitchen window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location
3	come	past		two turtle doves			next property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme
4	come	past	doves = dove	all little birds	heaven			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
5	chirp	gerund	doves = dove not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	flutter	gerund	doves = dove not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fly down	past	doves = dove				into the ashes result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into ash=Result

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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