Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 3

In reality the bird was the willow-wren.

Who acts: bird · What happens: be · To what, where: willow wren, reality

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 (bird), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 reality	case
2	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wren	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wren	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wren	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wren	det
7	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wren	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 willow	punct
9	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wren	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the bird	the willow wren		reality			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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