Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 65

But as she sat she bethought herself of the egg that the moon had given her; and when she broke it, there ran out a hen and twelve chickens of pure gold, that played about, and then nestled under the old one’s wings, so as to form the most beautiful sight in the world.

Who acts: help, egg, hen · What happens: sit, bethink, give, break, run out, play about · To what, where: help, moon, hen, wings, beautiful sight, world

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 (help, egg, hen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bethought	nsubj
6	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 bethought	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 egg	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 egg	det
10	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bethought	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 given	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moon	det
13	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 given	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 egg	acl:relcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	iobj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 ran	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ran	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 broke	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 broke	nsubj
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ran	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 broke	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ran	punct
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 ran	advmod
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 ran	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hen	det
28	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ran	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 chickens	cc
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 chickens	nummod
31	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hen	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 gold	case
33	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 gold	amod
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chickens	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 played	punct
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 played	nsubj
37	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hen	acl:relcl
38	about	about	ADV	_	37 played	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 nestled	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 nestled	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 nestled	advmod
42	nestled	nestle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
43	under	under	ADP	_	48 wings	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 one	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 one	amod
46	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wings	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 one	case
48	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 nestled	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 form	punct
50	so	so	ADV	_	53 form	advmod
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 form	mark
52	to	to	PART	_	53 form	mark
53	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 nestled	advcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 sight	det
55	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	56 beautiful	advmod
56	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 sight	amod
57	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 form	obj
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 world	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 world	det
60	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 sight	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	help						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bethink	past	help	help				of the egg	tree rules
3	give	past · perfect · passive	the egg not said here	the moon	help				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
4	break	past	help	moon					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
5	run out	past	help not said here	a hen and twelve chickens of pure gold		there			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Agent
6	play about	past	a hen and twelve chickens of pure gold					about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	nestle	past	help not said here			the old one's wings	then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under wing=Location
8	form	to-infinitive	help not said here	the beautiful sight		the world			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sight=Theme

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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