--- title: And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted; and when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Hansel and Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/) / 69 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 69 And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted; and when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar. **Who acts:** song, help, Hansel, windows · **What happens:** be over, spread, fly away, follow, reach, alight · **To what, where:** wings, help, little house, roof · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, help, Hansel, windows), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:20:69 # text = And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted; and when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 over over ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 alighted alight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 approached approach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 ccomp _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 conj _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 57 but but CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 58 that that SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 nsubj _ _ 61 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 64 cop _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be over** | past | help's song | | | | | over *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spread** | past | help | help's wings | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | | 3 | **fly away** | past | help *not said here* | | | | before Hansel | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location | | 4 | **follow** | past | Hansel | help | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **reach** | past | Hansel | a little house | | the roof | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 6 | **alight** | participle · passive | | help | | | | of the roof | tree rules | | 7 | **approach** | past | Hansel | the little house | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 8 | **see** | past | Hansel | the little house *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **build** | past · passive | | help | | | | of bread | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 10 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | with cakes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cake=Theme | | 11 | **is** | past | the windows | | | | | of clear sugar | tree rules | | 12 | **sing** | | help | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/70/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/)