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title: There they noticed a large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly r… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There they noticed a large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly round and round above them; it sank lower and lower, and at last settled near a rock not far away. Who acts: needles, large bird, piece. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 78

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There they noticed a large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly round and round above them; it sank lower and lower, and at last settled near a rock not far away.

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**Who acts:** needles, large bird, piece · **What happens:** notice, hover, fly, sink, settle · **To what, where:** large bird, air, last

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (needles, large bird, piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:60:78
# text = There they noticed a large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly round and round above them; it sank lower and lower, and at last settled near a rock not far away.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	hovering	hover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	_
29	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
30	near	near	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | needles *= needle* | a large bird |  | there |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hover** | gerund | a large bird *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | needles *= needle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above needles *= needle*; round, slowly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location |
| 4 | **sink** | past | piece |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **settle** | participle | needles *= needle* *not said here* |  |  | last |  | near a rock; away *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |

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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.

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**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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