Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 19
And the willow-wren summoned everything which flew in the air, not only birds, large and small, but midges, and hornets, bees and flies had to come.
Who acts: willow wren, midges · What happens: summon, fly, have, come · To what, where: everything, birds, air
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (willow wren, midges), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wren | det |
| 3 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wren | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 willow | punct |
| 5 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wren | acl |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 summoned | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 birds | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 birds | advmod |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 birds | advmod |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 large | punct |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 birds | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 small | cc |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 large | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 had | cc |
| 23 | midges | midge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 had | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hornets | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hornets | cc |
| 26 | hornets | hornet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 midges | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bees | punct |
| 28 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 midges | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flies | cc |
| 30 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 midges | conj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flew | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 come | mark |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 had | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | participle | the willow wren not said here | everything | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the willow wren | birds | the air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | |||
| 3 | have | past | midges and hornets and bees and flies | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | midges and hornets and bees and flies not said here | 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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