Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 74

And the little doves stooped their heads down and set to work, pick, pick, pick; and then the others began to pick, pick, pick: and among them all they soon picked out all the good grain, and put it into a dish but left the ashes.

Who acts: little doves, others, doves · What happens: stoop down, set, work, pick, begin, pick out · To what, where: heads, good grain, grain, dish, 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 (little doves, others, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 stooped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doves	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 doves	amod
4	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stooped	nsubj
5	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stooped	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	5 stooped	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
10	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stooped	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 work	mark
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 set	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pick	punct
14	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 set	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pick	punct
16	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 pick	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pick	punct
18	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 pick	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 began	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 others	det
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stooped	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pick	mark
26	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pick	punct
28	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 pick	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pick	punct
30	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 pick	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 picked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 picked	cc
33	among	among	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 picked	obl
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 them	nmod:unmarked
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 picked	nsubj
37	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 picked	advmod
38	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stooped	parataxis
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 picked	compound:prt
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 grain	det:predet
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 grain	det
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 grain	amod
43	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 picked	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 put	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 put	cc
46	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 picked	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 put	obj
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 dish	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 dish	det
50	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 put	obl
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 left	cc
52	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 picked	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 ashes	det
54	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 left	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stoop down	past	the little doves	doves's heads			down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
2	set	infinitive	the little doves not said here					tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pick	infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pick	infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pick	infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	begin	past	the others			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	pick	to-infinitive	the others not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	pick	infinitive	the others not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	pick	infinitive	the others not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	pick out	past	doves = dove	all good grain			among doves = dove; soon property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient
12	put	infinitive	doves = dove not said here	grain	a dish			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
13	leave	past	doves = dove not said here	the ashes				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=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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