Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 26
When the gnat had heard that, she flew away again, and revealed everything, down to the minutest detail, to the willow-wren.
Who acts: gnat · What happens: hear, fly away, reveal · To what, where: gnat, everything, minutest detail
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 (gnat), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gnat | det |
| 3 | gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 revealed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 revealed | cc |
| 14 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flew | conj |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 revealed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 down | punct |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 revealed | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 detail | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 detail | det |
| 20 | minutest | minute | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 detail | amod |
| 21 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 revealed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wren | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 wren | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wren | det |
| 25 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wren | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 willow | punct |
| 27 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 revealed | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect · passive | the gnat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly away | past | gnat | again | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | reveal | past | gnat not said here | everything | the minutest detail | down property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to detail=Recipient |
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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