Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 87

And they flew down into the ashes; and the little doves put their heads down and set to work, pick, pick, pick; and then the others began pick, pick, pick; and they put all the good grain into the dishes, and left all the ashes.

Who acts: doves, little doves, others · What happens: fly down, put down, set, work, pick, begin · To what, where: ashes, heads, good grain, dishes

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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
2	put down	past	the little doves	doves's heads			down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
3	set	infinitive	the little doves not said here					tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	the little doves not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pick	infinitive						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pick	infinitive						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	pick	infinitive						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	begin	past	the others			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
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	infinitive	the others not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	put	past	doves = dove	all good grain	the dishes			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent grain=Goal
13	leave	past	doves = dove not said here	all 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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