--- title: Then first came two white doves, flying in at the kitchen window; ne… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then first came two white doves, flying in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and fluttering in: and they flew down into the ashes. Who acts: doves. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/73/) [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/) / [The Miser in the Bush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/) / 73 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 73 Then first came two white doves, flying in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and fluttering in: and they flew down into the ashes. **Who acts:** doves · **What happens:** come, fly in, chirp, flutter, fly down · **To what, where:** two white doves, kitchen window, two turtle doves, little birds, heaven, ashes This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doves), 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:pg2591:33:73 # text = Then first came two white doves, flying in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and fluttering in: and they flew down into the ashes. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 doves dove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 next next ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 18 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 doves dove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 after after SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 30 under under ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 chirping chirp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 fluttering flutter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 36 in in ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 down down ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 into into ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | two white doves | | | then | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme | | 2 | **fly in** | gerund | | | | the kitchen window | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location | | 3 | **come** | past | | two turtle doves | | | | next *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | doves *= dove* | all little birds | | heaven | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | | 5 | **chirp** | gerund | doves *= dove* *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **flutter** | gerund | doves *= dove* *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **fly down** | past | doves *= dove* | | | | | into the ashes *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into ash=Result | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/74/) - ↑ back to [The Miser in the Bush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/33/)