Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 30

When the seventh came to the bottom of his glass, and found there the ring, he looked at it, and knew that it was his father’s and mother’s, and said, ‘O that our little sister would but come! then we should be free.’

Who acts: seventh, ring, we · What happens: come, find, look, know, be, say · To what, where: bottom, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventh, ring, we), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seventh	det
3	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 glass	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 glass	nmod:poss
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bottom	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 found	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ring	det
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knew	cc
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 father	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 father	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 father	cop
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knew	ccomp
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 father	case
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mother	cc
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 father	conj
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 mother	case
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 would	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 would	punct
39	O	o	INTJ	_	44 would	discourse
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 would	mark
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 sister	nmod:poss
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sister	amod
43	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 would	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 said	ccomp
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 come	cc
46	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	44 would	conj
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 free	advmod
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 free	nsubj
50	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 free	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 free	cop
52	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 looked	parataxis
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 free	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the seventh		the bottom of seventh's glass			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location
2	find	past	the seventh not said here	the ring	there			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
3	look	past	seventh				at ring	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	know	past	seventh not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	ring				's seventh's father and mother	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	seventh not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	come	infinitive	seventh not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	should	we			then	free property	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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