Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 50
I sprang over the tree simply because the hunters were shooting down here in the thicket.
Who acts: I, hunters · What happens: sprang, shoot down · To what, where: tree, thicket
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, hunters), 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 | 2 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | sprang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 2 sprang | advmod |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 shooting | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hunters | det |
| 9 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shooting | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shooting | aux |
| 11 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sprang | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 shooting | advmod |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 shooting | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 thicket | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thicket | det |
| 16 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shooting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprang | present | I | the tree | simply property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shoot down | past · progressive | the hunters | the thicket; here | down property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in thicket=Destination |
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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