Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 86
The children's attention was soon attracted to a big bird that hovered in the air.
Who acts: big bird, children · What happens: attract, hover, attend · To what, where: attention, air
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big bird, children), 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 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 attention | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 children | case |
| 4 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 attracted | aux:pass |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 attracted | advmod |
| 7 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attracted | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hovered | nsubj |
| 13 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bird | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hovered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past · passive | the children's attention | to a big bird result; soon property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bird=Result | ||||
| 2 | hover | past | a big bird | the air | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 3 | attend | the children | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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