--- title: Then, when the bird came home and had laid aside his burden, they sa… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then, when the bird came home and had laid aside his burden, they sat down to table, and when they had finished their meal, they could sleep their fill till the following morning: and that was really a very delightful life. Who acts: bird, mouse, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, mouse, that), 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:pg2591:21:9 # text = Then, when the bird came home and had laid aside his burden, they sat down to table, and when they had finished their meal, they could sleep their fill till the following morning: and that was really a very delightful life. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 home home ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 11 aside aside ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 burden burden NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fill fill NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 till till ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 40 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 42 really really ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 very very ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the bird | | | | then | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | past · perfect | the bird *not said here* | | | | | aside bird's burden | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit down** | past | mouse | | | | | to table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **finish** | past · perfect | mouse | mouse's meal | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meal=Eventuality | | 5 | **sleep** | could | mouse | mouse's fill | | | morning | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Theme | | 6 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | past | that | a delightful life | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **burden** | | bird | | | | | | nom burden «cognition transitive»: 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/21/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/21/10/) - ↑ back to [The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/21/)