Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 12

The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle.

Who acts: sun, doves · What happens: set, sink, look, see, have, know · To what, where: half, hill, bushes, sun, old walls

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, doves), 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	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 setting	aux
4	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 setting	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sunk	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sunk	cc
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 half	advmod
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 sunk	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 circle	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 circle	nmod:poss
12	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 half	nmod
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sunk	aux
14	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 setting	parataxis
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 hill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sunk	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Jorindel	punct
19	Jorindel	Jorindel	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 hill	appos
20	on	on	SCONJ	_	23 looked	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 looked	det
22	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looked	amod
23	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sunk	parataxis
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 saw	cc
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 looked	parataxis
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 bushes	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bushes	det
31	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 saw	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 had	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bushes	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knowing	punct
36	without	without	SCONJ	_	37 knowing	mark
37	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 saw	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knowing	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sat	punct
40	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 saw	conj
41	down	down	ADV	_	40 sat	advmod
42	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 sat	advmod
43	under	under	ADP	_	46 walls	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 walls	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 walls	amod
46	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sat	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 castle	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 castle	det
49	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 walls	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 setting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun			fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sink	past · perfect · passive		half of sun's circle	the hill		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	look	participle				behind Jorinda	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme
4	see	past			the bushes		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	past	doves = dove	the bushes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
6	know	gerund		sun			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	sit down	past			the old walls of the castle	close, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wall=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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