Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 25

And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.

Who acts: sun, gloomy night, owl, moment, nose · What happens: go, come, fly, stare, meet · To what, where: bush, that

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, gloomy night, owl, moment), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 down	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
10	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 flew	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 owl	det
15	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flew	nsubj
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 bush	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bush	det
19	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flew	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
24	after	after	ADP	_	27 fairy	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fairy	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fairy	amod
27	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 moment	nmod
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	parataxis
29	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
30	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 came	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 meagre	cc
32	meagre	meagre	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pale	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 eyes	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 eyes	case
35	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 eyes	amod
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 came	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 met	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 met	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 nose	det
40	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 met	nsubj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 chin	cc
42	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 nose	conj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 met	obj
44	almost	almost	ADV	_	45 met	advmod
45	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 met	obj
47	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	46 one	fixed
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the sun		now	down property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the gloomy night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past	the owl			into a bush result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bush=Result
4	come	past	a moment after the old fairy			with staring eyes; forth, pale property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stare	gerund					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	meet	past	a nose and chin	that		almost property	tree rules

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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