Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 49

The ant-king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of ants, and the grateful creatures had by great industry picked up all the millet-seed and gathered them into the sacks.

Who acts: ant king, grateful creatures, great industry · What happens: come, have, pick up, gather · To what, where: millet seed, creatures

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 (ant king, grateful creatures, great industry), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
2	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ant	punct
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 thousands	case
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thousands	cc
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 ants	case
15	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thousands	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 creatures	det
19	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creatures	amod
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 come	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 industry	case
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 industry	amod
24	industry	industry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
25	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 industry	acl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 picked	compound:prt
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 seed	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 seed	det
29	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seed	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 millet	punct
31	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 picked	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gathered	cc
33	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 had	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gathered	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 sacks	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sacks	det
37	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gathered	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the ant king		night	with thousands and thousands of ants	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	participle	the grateful creatures			by great industry	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pick up	participle	great industry not said here	all millet seed			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Topic
4	gather	past	the grateful creatures not said here	creatures = creature		into the sacks	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient into sack=Co-Patient

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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