Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 9

He went and listened, and then noticed that it was the sparrows who were chattering together, and telling one another of all kinds of things which they had seen in the fields and woods.

Who acts: king, cover · What happens: go, listen, notice, chatter, tell, see · To what, where: another, things, fields · 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 (king, cover), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 listened	cc
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 noticed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 noticed	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 noticed	advmod
8	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 chattering	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 chattering	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 chattering	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sparrows	det
13	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 chattering	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 chattering	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 chattering	aux
16	chattering	chatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 noticed	advcl
17	together	together	ADV	_	16 chattering	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 telling	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 telling	cc
20	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 another	nummod
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 telling	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 kinds	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 kinds	det
25	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 another	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 things	case
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kinds	nmod
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 seen	nsubj:pass
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seen	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seen	aux
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 things	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 fields	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fields	det
34	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 seen	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 woods	cc
36	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fields	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	king					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	listen	past	king not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	notice	past	king not said here			then		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	chatter	past · progressive	cover				together property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	king not said here	another				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent another=Recipient
6	see	past · perfect · passive		things	the fields and woods			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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