Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 33

And just as that was decided on, the young count entered into the church, and suddenly two snow-white doves flew on his shoulders and remained sitting there.

Who acts: young, two snow white doves · What happens: decide on, count, enter, fly, remain, sit · To what, where: that, church, shoulders

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 (young, two snow white 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 decided	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 decided	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 decided	mark
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 decided	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decided	aux:pass
6	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 decided	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 count	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 young	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 count	nsubj
11	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 decided	conj
12	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 count	xcomp
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 church	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flew	cc
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 two	advmod
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 doves	nummod
20	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 doves	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 snow	punct
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 doves	amod
23	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flew	nsubj
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 count	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 shoulders	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoulders	nmod:poss
27	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flew	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 remained	cc
29	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flew	conj
30	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 remained	xcomp
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 sitting	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	decide on	past · passive		that		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
2	count	present	the young			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	enter	participle	the young not said here		the church	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location
4	fly	past	two snow white doves		Pope's shoulders	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location
5	remain	past	two snow white doves not said here			tree rules
6	sit	gerund	two snow white doves not said here		there	vn assuming_position-50 «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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