Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 34

Then he came at last to the palace, and there in the court lay the dogs asleep; and the horses were standing in the stables; and on the roof sat the pigeons fast asleep, with their heads under their wings.

Who acts: man, horses · What happens: come, lie, stand, sit · To what, where: dogs, court, stables, pigeons, roof

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, horses), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 last	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lay	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 court	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 court	det
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dogs	det
17	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lay	obj
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lay	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 standing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 standing	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horses	det
22	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 standing	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 standing	aux
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 stables	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stables	det
27	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 standing	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sat	cc
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 roof	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 roof	det
32	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sat	obl
33	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pigeons	det
35	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sat	obj
36	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 sat	advmod
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sat	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 heads	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 heads	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 heads	nmod:poss
41	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sat	conj
42	under	under	ADP	_	44 wings	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wings	nmod:poss
44	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 heads	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	man			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past	man not said here	the dogs	the court; there		asleep property	tree rules
3	stand	past · progressive	the horses		the stables			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stable=Location
4	sit	past		the pigeons	the roof		asleep, fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme on roof=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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