Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 9
The King and Queen had just flown out, so he peeped in and saw five or six young ones lying there.
Who acts: King, five young ones · What happens: fly out, peep, see, lie · To what, where: five young ones
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 (King, five young ones), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 flown | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flown | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 flown | advmod |
| 7 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 flown | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 peeped | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 peeped | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 peeped | nsubj |
| 12 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flown | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 peeped | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 peeped | conj |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 ones | nummod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 six | cc |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 five | conj |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ones | amod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obj |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 ones | acl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lying | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past · perfect | the King and Queen | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | peep | past | King | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | King not said here | five young ones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | five young ones not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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