Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 6

From that time forth, no one would any longer venture into the forest, and it lay there in deep stillness and solitude, and nothing was seen of it, but sometimes an eagle or a hawk flying over it.

Who acts: forest, hawk · What happens: lie, see, fly · To what, where: deep stillness, nothing, forest

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, hawk), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 venture	obl
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 time	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 venture	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 venture	aux
9	any	any	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 venture	advmod
11	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 venture	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lay	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 venture	parataxis
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 lay	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 stillness	case
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stillness	amod
22	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 solitude	cc
24	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stillness	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seen	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seen	cc
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 seen	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux:pass
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 lay	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seen	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 eagle	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 eagle	cc
34	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 eagle	advmod
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 eagle	det
36	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	parataxis
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 hawk	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hawk	det
39	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 eagle	conj
40	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 hawk	acl
41	over	over	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 flying	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 venture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	forest		deep stillness and solitude; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stillness=Location
2	see	past · passive		nothing		of forest	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	fly	gerund	a hawk not said here		forest		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/6/