Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 79

As they fell down the rogues said, "Ah! the birds are pulling off the leaves."

Who acts: apples, rogues, birds · What happens: fall down, say, pull off · To what, where: leaves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apples, rogues, birds), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 fell	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	7 said	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rogues	det
6	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pulling	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pulling	punct
10	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	15 pulling	discourse
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Ah	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pulling	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pulling	aux
15	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
16	off	off	ADP	_	18 leaves	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 leaves	det
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pulling	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fall down	past	apples = apple		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the rogues		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pull off in a quote	present · progressive	the birds	the leaves	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Eventuality

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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