Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 8

The little hare would eat a cabbage-leaf out of their hands, the roe grazed by their side, the stag leapt merrily by them, and the birds sat still upon the boughs, and sang whatever they knew.

Who acts: little hare, roe, birds, children · What happens: eat, graze, leapt, sit, sing, know · To what, where: cabbage leaf, hands, roe, stag, boughs, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little hare, roe, birds, children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 leaf	det
7	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaf	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cabbage	punct
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 hands	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 roe	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roe	det
16	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leapt	nsubj
17	grazed	graze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 roe	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 side	nmod:poss
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grazed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stag	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stag	det
23	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leapt	obl
24	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	parataxis
25	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	24 leapt	advmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 leapt	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sat	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 birds	det
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sat	nsubj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	parataxis
33	still	still	ADV	_	32 sat	advmod
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 boughs	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 boughs	det
36	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sat	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sang	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sang	cc
39	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sat	conj
40	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 knew	obj
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 knew	nsubj
42	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sang	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	the little hare	a cabbage leaf	children's hands			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	graze	participle		the roe not said here			by children's side	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leapt	present	the roe	the stag			by children = child; merrily property	tree rules
4	sit	past	the birds		the boughs	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bough=Location
5	sing speech: express	past	the birds not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	know	past	children = child	whatever				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whatever=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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