Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 5

The bird took its flight to a dark wood and remained there for a long time, and meanwhile the parents could hear nothing of their child.

Who acts: bird, parents · What happens: take, remain, meanwhile, hear · To what, where: flight, dark wood, nothing

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, parents), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flight	nmod:poss
5	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wood	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wood	amod
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 remained	cc
11	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 remained	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 meanwhile	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 meanwhile	cc
19	meanwhile	meanwhile	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 parents	det
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hear	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hear	aux
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 meanwhile	ccomp
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 hear	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 child	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 child	nmod:poss
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nothing	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	the bird	bird's flight	a dark wood		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flight=Theme to wood=Destination
2	remain	past	the bird not said here		there	time	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meanwhile	infinitive					tree rules
4	hear	could	the parents	nothing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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