The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 69

At midday they saw a beautiful little snow-white bird sitting on a branch, which sang so sweetly that they stopped still and listened to it.

Who acts: Hansel, beautiful little snow white bird, branch · What happens: see, sit, sing, stop, listen · To what, where: beautiful little snow white bird, midday, branch

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, beautiful little snow white bird, branch), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midday	case
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snow	punct
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bird	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 branch	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 branch	det
15	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sang	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sang	nsubj
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 branch	acl:relcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 sweetly	advmod
20	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	18 sang	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 stopped	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sang	advcl
24	still	still	ADV	_	23 stopped	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 listened	cc
26	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stopped	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 listened	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Hansel	a beautiful little snow white bird		midday			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	sit	gerund	a beautiful little snow white bird not said here			a branch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
3	sing speech: express	past	a branch					sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	past	Hansel				still		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	listen	past	Hansel not said here		branch				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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