Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 44

Then he touched the door with the flower, and it sprang open; so that he went in through the court, and listened when he heard so many birds singing.

Who acts: spell, flower, many birds · What happens: touch, spring, go in, listen, hear, sing · To what, where: door, court, many birds

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 (spell, flower, many birds), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 touched	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touched	nsubj
3	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 flower	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sprang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sprang	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sprang	nsubj
12	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	conj
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sprang	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 went	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	conj
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 court	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 court	det
22	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 listened	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 listened	cc
25	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	parataxis
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 heard	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 heard	nsubj
28	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 listened	advcl
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 many	advmod
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 birds	amod
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 heard	obj
32	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 heard	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	spell	the door		then	with the flower	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Experiencer with flower=Instrument
2	spring	past	flower				open property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go in	past	spell		the court			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through court=Initial_Location
4	listen	past						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	spell	many birds				tree rules
6	sing speech: express	gerund	many birds not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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