Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 5

Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the third went straight up towards the sky, though it only sped a short distance before falling to earth.

Who acts: one, third, sky · What happens: fly, go, speed, fall · To what, where: eastwards, sky, short distance

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 (one, third, sky), 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 flew	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 feathers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 feathers	det
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	eastwards	eastward	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 another	punct
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 flew	conj
10	westwards	westwards	ADV	_	9 another	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 third	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	17 up	advmod
17	up	up	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 sky	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sky	det
20	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sped	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 sped	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sped	nsubj
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 sped	advmod
25	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 distance	det
27	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 distance	amod
28	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sped	obj
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 falling	mark
30	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sped	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 earth	case
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 falling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	one of the feathers	eastwards		then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eastward=Theme
2	go	past	the third		the sky			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards sky=Initial_Location
3	speed	past	sky	a short distance				vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location distance=Theme
4	fall	gerund	sky not said here				to earth	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme

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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