Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 17

They were telling one another of all the places where they had been waddling about all the morning, and what good food they had found; and one said in a pitiful tone: ‘Something lies heavy on my stomach; as I was eating in haste I swallowed a ring which lay under the queen’s window.’

Who acts: ducks, one, Something, I, ring · What happens: tell, waddle, find, say, lie, eat · To what, where: one, good food, pitiful tone, stomach, haste, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ducks, one, Something, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 telling	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 telling	obj
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 one	fixed
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 places	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 places	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 places	det
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 another	nmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 waddling	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 waddling	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 waddling	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 waddling	aux
14	waddling	waddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 places	acl
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 morning	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 morning	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 morning	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waddling	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 found	obj
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 food	amod
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	nsubj:pass
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 found	aux
26	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 waddling	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
29	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 tone	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tone	det
33	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tone	amod
34	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 lies	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 lies	punct
37	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 lies	nsubj
38	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 said	conj
39	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lies	xcomp
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 stomach	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 stomach	nmod:poss
42	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lies	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 eating	punct
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 eating	mark
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 eating	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 eating	aux
47	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 telling	ccomp
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 haste	case
49	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eating	obl
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 swallowed	nsubj
51	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 haste	acl:relcl
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 ring	det
53	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 swallowed	obj
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 lay	nsubj
55	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 ring	acl:relcl
56	under	under	ADP	_	60 window	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 queen	det
58	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 window	nmod:poss
59	’s	's	PART	_	58 queen	case
60	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lay	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 eating	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	ducks = duck	one				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
2	waddle	past · perfect · progressive	ducks = duck			morning		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past · perfect · passive		good food				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme what=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past	one		a pitiful tone			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner
5	lie	present	Something		my stomach		heavy property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stomach=Location
6	eat	past · progressive	I		haste			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	swallow	past	I	a ring				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
8	lie	past	a ring		the queen's window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under window=Location

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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