Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 2

And when he was sitting beside her and very happy, news came that his father lay sick unto death, and desired to see him once again before his end.

Who acts: son, news, father · What happens: sit, come, lie, desire, see · To what, where: son

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, news, father), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 sitting	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 sitting	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 happy	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 happy	advmod
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sitting	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 lay	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	advcl
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lay	xcomp
19	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 desired	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 desired	cc
23	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 came	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 desired	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 see	advmod
28	again	again	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 end	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 end	nmod:poss
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	son			beside bride	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
2	come	past	news				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	past	son's father			unto death; sick property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	desire	participle	news not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	news not said here	son	before son's end; again	once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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