Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 34

In a moment he disappeared, and when his wife came in and looked for him, she found only a white dove; and it said to her, ‘Seven years must I fly up and down over the face of the earth, but every now and then I will let fall a white feather, that will show you the way I am going; follow it, and at last you may overtake and set me free.’

Who acts: ray, wife, dove, I, white feather, you · What happens: disappear, come in, look, find, say, fly up · To what, where: white dove, wife, face, white feather, way, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ray, wife, dove, I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappeared	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 disappeared	nsubj
5	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	advcl
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappeared	conj
20	only	only	ADV	_	23 dove	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dove	det
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dove	amod
23	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappeared	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fly	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 years	punct
32	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fly	obl:unmarked
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 fly	aux
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 fly	nsubj
36	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	conj
37	up	up	ADV	_	36 fly	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 down	cc
39	down	down	ADV	_	37 up	conj
40	over	over	ADP	_	42 face	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 face	det
42	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fly	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 earth	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 earth	det
45	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 face	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 let	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 let	cc
48	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	54 let	det
49	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 let	advmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 let	cc
51	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 let	advmod
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 let	nsubj
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 let	aux
54	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 disappeared	parataxis
55	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 let	xcomp
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 feather	det
57	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 feather	amod
58	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 fall	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 show	punct
60	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 show	nsubj
61	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 show	aux
62	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 feather	acl:relcl
63	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	62 show	iobj
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 way	det
65	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 show	obl:unmarked
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 going	nsubj
67	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 going	aux
68	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	65 way	acl:relcl
69	;	;	PUNCT	_	70 follow	punct
70	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 let	conj
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 follow	obj
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 overtake	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 overtake	cc
74	at	at	ADP	_	75 last	case
75	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 overtake	obl
76	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	78 overtake	nsubj
77	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	78 overtake	aux
78	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 follow	conj
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 set	cc
80	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	78 overtake	conj
81	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	80 set	obj
82	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	80 set	xcomp
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 let	punct
84	’	'	PUNCT	_	54 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	ray				moment		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in	past	ray's wife						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	ray's wife not said here					for ray	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
4	find	past	wife	a white dove					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past	dove		wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
6	fly up	must	I			the face of the earth	year		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over face=Location
7	let	future	I				now; then		tree rules
8	fall	infinitive	I not said here	a white feather					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient feather=Result
9	show	future	a white feather	the way	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
10	go	present · progressive	I	the way not said here					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
11	follow	infinitive	I not said here	feather					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
12	overtake	may	you			last			tree rules
13	set	infinitive	you not said here	me				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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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