Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 35

This said, he flew out at the door, and poor Lily followed; and every now and then a white feather fell, and showed her the way she was to journey.

Who acts: This, ray, poor Lily, white feather, way · What happens: say, fly out, follow, fall, show, be · To what, where: door, Lily, journey · 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 (This, ray, poor Lily, white feather), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 flew	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 followed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 followed	cc
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Lily	amod
13	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 followed	nsubj
14	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 fell	det
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 fell	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 fell	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 feather	det
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feather	amod
23	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 showed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 showed	cc
27	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 showed	iobj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 journey	nsubj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 journey	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 journey	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 journey	mark
34	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 showed	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	This					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly out	past	ray			the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at door=Location
3	follow	past	poor Lily					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	a white feather				now; then	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	show	past	a white feather not said here		Lily			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is a	past	the way	journey				tree rules

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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