Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 37

Then he had to sing a mass, and did not know one word of it, but the two doves sat continually on his shoulders, and said it all in his ear.

Who acts: Pope, two doves · What happens: have, sing, not know, sit, say, word · To what, where: mass, one word, shoulders, ear, word · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Pope, two 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sing	mark
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mass	det
7	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 know	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 word	nummod
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 word	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 doves	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 doves	nummod
21	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
23	continually	continually	ADV	_	22 sat	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 shoulders	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shoulders	nmod:poss
26	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sat	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	obj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 it	det
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 ear	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 ear	nmod:poss
34	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Pope			then		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Pope not said here	a mass				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mass=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	Pope not said here	one word of word				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	sit	past	the two doves		Pope's shoulders		continually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
5	say speech: assert	past		mass	Pope's ear			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in ear=Manner
6	word			word				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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