Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 78

There they noticed a large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly round and round above them; it sank lower and lower, and at last settled near a rock not far away.

Who acts: needles, large bird, piece · What happens: notice, hover, fly, sink, settle · To what, where: large bird, air, last

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 (needles, large bird, piece), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 noticed	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 noticed	nsubj
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noticed	obj
7	hovering	hover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bird	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hovering	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flying	punct
12	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 noticed	advcl
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 flying	advmod
14	round	round	ADV	_	12 flying	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 round	cc
16	round	round	ADV	_	14 round	conj
17	above	above	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flying	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sank	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sank	nsubj
21	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	conj
22	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 sank	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lower	cc
24	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 lower	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 settled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 settled	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 settled	obl
29	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 noticed	conj
30	near	near	ADP	_	32 rock	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rock	det
32	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 settled	obl
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 far	advmod
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 away	advmod
35	away	away	ADV	_	29 settled	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	needles = needle	a large bird	there		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	hover	gerund	a large bird not said here		the air		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
3	fly	gerund	needles = needle not said here			above needles = needle; round, slowly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location
4	sink	past	piece			low property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	settle	participle	needles = needle not said here		last	near a rock; away property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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.

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