Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 29

On the way he passed by a marsh, in which a number of frogs were sitting croaking.

Who acts: country, number · What happens: pass, sit, croak · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, number), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 marsh	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 marsh	det
8	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sitting	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 number	det
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 frogs	case
15	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 number	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 passed	conj
18	croaking	croak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sitting	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	country	the way	by a marsh	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	sit	past · progressive	a number of frogs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	croak	gerund	a number of frogs not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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