Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 45

At last he came to the chamber where the fairy sat, with the seven hundred birds singing in the seven hundred cages.

Who acts: spell, fairy, hundred birds · What happens: come, sit, sing · To what, where: last, hundred cages

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, fairy, hundred 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 chamber	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chamber	det
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sat	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fairy	det
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chamber	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 birds	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 birds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birds	det
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hundred	compound
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 birds	nummod
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sat	obl
18	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 birds	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 cages	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cages	det
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hundred	compound
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 cages	nummod
23	cages	cage	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 singing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	spell	last	to the chamber	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	the fairy		with the hundred birds	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the hundred birds not said here	the hundred cages		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cage=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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