Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 35
The bird, glad to be free, flew straight up, and then far away, and did not come back. "
Who acts: bird · What happens: be, fly, not come back
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 (bird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bird | amod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 free | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 free | cop |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bird | punct |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 up | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 away | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 away | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 away | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 come | cc |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 come | advmod |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 flew | parataxis |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the bird | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not come back | past · do-support | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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