Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 34
I will throw one up which will not come down;" and, dipping into his pocket, he took out the bird and threw it into the air.
Who acts: I, one, Tailor · What happens: throw, not come down, dip, take out · To what, where: pocket, bird, air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, Tailor), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 throw | aux |
| 3 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 come | nsubj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 one | compound:prt |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 throw | ccomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dipping | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | dipping | dip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 throw | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dipping | obl | ||
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 throw | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 threw | cc |
| 26 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 threw | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 air | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 air | det |
| 30 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 threw | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not come down | future | one | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dip in a quote | gerund | the Tailor = tailor not said here | Tailor's pocket | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Location | ||||
| 4 | take out in a quote | past | Tailor | the bird | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw in a quote | past | Tailor not said here | bird | into the air result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into air=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: «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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