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Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 41

There they found the princess sitting, as the star-gazer had said, on the rock; and the dragon was lying asleep, with his head upon her lap.

Who acts: brothers, princess, dragon · What happens: find, sit, say, lie · To what, where: princess, star gazer, rock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, princess, dragon), 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

explnsubjdetobjaclpunctmarkdetcompoundpunctnsubj:passauxconjpunctcasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjauxadvclxcomppunctcasenmod:possoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootTherePRONtheyPRONfoundVERBtheDETprincessNOUNsittingVERB,PUNCTasSCONJtheDETstarNOUN-PUNCTgazerNOUNhadAUXsaidVERB,PUNCTonADPtheDETrockNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJtheDETdragonNOUNwasAUXlyingVERBasleepADJ,PUNCTwithADPhisPRONheadNOUNuponADPherPRONlapNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem3 foundexpl
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 foundnsubj
3foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 princessdet
5princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing3 foundobj
6sittingsitVERBVerbForm=Ger5 princessacl
7,,PUNCT_14 saidpunct
8asasSCONJ_14 saidmark
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 gazerdet
10starstarNOUNNumber=Sing12 gazercompound
11--PUNCT_10 starpunct
12gazergazerNOUNNumber=Sing14 saidnsubj:pass
13hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 saidaux
14saidsayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 sittingconj
15,,PUNCT_18 rockpunct
16ononADP_18 rockcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 rockdet
18rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing14 saidobl
19;;PUNCT_24 lyingpunct
20andandCCONJ_24 lyingcc
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 dragondet
22dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing24 lyingnsubj
23wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 lyingaux
24lyinglieVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 foundadvcl
25asleepasleepADJDegree=Pos24 lyingxcomp
26,,PUNCT_29 headpunct
27withwithADP_29 headcase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 headnmod:poss
29headheadNOUNNumber=Sing24 lyingobl
30uponuponADP_32 lapcase
31herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 lapnmod:poss
32laplapNOUNNumber=Sing29 headnmod
33..PUNCT_3 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpastbrothers = brotherthe princesstherevn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2sitgerundthe princess not said herevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assertpast · perfect · passivethe star gazerthe rockvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4liepast · progressivethe dragonwith king's head upon dragon's lap; asleep propertyvn 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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