Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 19

And close by them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with its head hidden beneath its wings.

Who acts: lamb, white dove · What happens: lie, sit, hide · To what, where: floor, head, wings

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamb, white dove), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:2619): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 lay	cc
2	close	close	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 close	obl
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lamb	det
7	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	obl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 perch	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 perch	det
17	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dove	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dove	amod
21	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dove	nmod
25	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 head	acl
26	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	28 wings	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wings	nmod:poss
28	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hidden	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a lamb		the floor	close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon floor=Location
2	sit	past	a white dove with dove's head			behind girls = girl; upon a perch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind they=Location
3	hide	participle		dove's head not said here	dove's wings		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath wing=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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