Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 86

Then first came two white doves in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and hopping about.

Who acts: doves · What happens: come, chirp, hop about · To what, where: two white doves, kitchen window, two turtle doves, little birds, heaven

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	in	in	ADP	_	11 window	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 window	compound
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
13	next	next	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 doves	nummod
16	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 doves	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 turtle	punct
18	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 birds	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 birds	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 birds	amod
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	obj
28	under	under	ADP	_	29 heaven	case
29	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 birds	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chirping	punct
31	chirping	chirp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hopping	cc
33	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 chirping	conj
34	about	about	ADV	_	33 hopping	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		two white doves	the kitchen window	then	first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme
2	come	past		two turtle doves			next property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme
3	come	past	doves = dove	all little birds	heaven			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
4	chirp	gerund	doves = dove not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hop about	gerund	doves = dove not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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