Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 11

At length the three brothers came to a castle: and as they passed by the stables they saw fine horses standing there, but all were of marble, and no man was to be seen.

Who acts: three brothers, brother, fine horses · What happens: come, pass, see, stand, be · To what, where: length, fine horses, man

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three brothers, brother, fine horses), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 passed	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 passed	nsubj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 stables	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stables	det
17	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 passed	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stables	acl:relcl
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 horses	amod
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saw	obj
22	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 horses	acl
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 standing	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 marble	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 marble	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 marble	det
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 marble	cop
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 marble	case
29	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seen	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 seen	cc
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seen	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	aux:pass
35	to	to	PART	_	37 seen	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 seen	aux:pass
37	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 passed	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the three brothers		length	to a castle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
2	pass	past	brother			by the stables	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by stable=Location
3	see	past	brother	fine horses			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
4	stand	gerund	fine horses not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past				of all marble	tree rules
6	see	past · passive		no man			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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