Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 28

Then, again, he blew three feathers into the air to show the direction each one should go; whereupon the two elder sons went east and west, but Dummling's flew straight up, and fell close by the trap-door.

Who acts: Dummling, one, two elder sons · What happens: blow, show, go, fall · To what, where: three feathers, air, direction

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, one, two elder sons), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 blew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	again	again	ADV	_	6 blew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 again	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blew	nsubj
6	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 feathers	nummod
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blew	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 show	mark
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 blew	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 direction	det
15	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	obj
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 direction	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
21	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	26 went	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sons	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sons	nummod
24	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sons	amod
25	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blew	parataxis
27	east	east	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 west	cc
29	west	west	ADV	_	27 east	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 up	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 up	cc
32	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 flew	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Dummling	case
34	flew	flew	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 up	nsubj
35	straight	straight	ADV	_	36 up	advmod
36	up	up	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fell	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fell	cc
39	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 went	conj
40	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 fell	advmod
41	by	by	ADP	_	45 door	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 door	det
43	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 door	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 trap	punct
45	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fell	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	Dummling	three feathers	the air	then; again		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent feather=Material into air=Product
2	show	to-infinitive	Dummling not said here	the direction				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient
3	go	should	each one	the direction not said here				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme
4	go	past	the two elder sons				east, whereupon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	the two elder sons not said here				by the trap door; close property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by door=Location

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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