Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 20
When the time came for the war to begin, the willow-wren sent out spies to discover who was the enemy’s commander-in-chief.
Who acts: time, willow wren · What happens: come, begin, send out, discover, be · To what, where: spies, chief
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 (time, willow wren), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 war | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 war | det |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 begin | mark |
| 9 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wren | det |
| 12 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wren | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 willow | punct |
| 14 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sent | compound:prt |
| 17 | spies | spy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sent | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 discover | mark |
| 19 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 chief | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 chief | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 enemy | det |
| 23 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chief | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 enemy | case |
| 25 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chief | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 chief | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 chief | case |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 in | punct |
| 29 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discover | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | for the war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | to-infinitive | the time not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | send out | participle | the willow wren | spies | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | discover | to-infinitive | the willow wren not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the enemy's chief | tree rules |
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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