Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 88
He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and at the top of this a little child was sitting, for the mother had fallen asleep under the tree with the child, and a bird of prey had seen it in her arms, had flown down, snatched it away, and set it on the high tree.
Who acts: forester, little child, mother · What happens: follow, come, sit, fall, see, fly down · To what, where: sound, last, top, tree, bird, arms
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forester, little child, mother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 came | obl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 flown | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 flown | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 flown | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 top | nmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 child | amod |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sitting | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sitting | aux |
| 25 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 top | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fallen | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 fallen | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mother | det |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fallen | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fallen | aux |
| 31 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 sitting | conj |
| 32 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fallen | xcomp |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 tree | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tree | det |
| 35 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fallen | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 child | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 child | det |
| 38 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tree | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 seen | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 seen | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 bird | det |
| 42 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 prey | case |
| 44 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bird | nmod |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 seen | aux |
| 46 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 fallen | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 seen | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 arms | case |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 arms | nmod:poss |
| 50 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 seen | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 top | punct |
| 52 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 flown | aux |
| 53 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | conj |
| 54 | down | down | ADP | _ | 53 flown | compound:prt |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 snatched | punct |
| 56 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 57 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 snatched | obj |
| 58 | away | away | ADV | _ | 56 snatched | advmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 set | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 set | cc |
| 61 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 snatched | advcl |
| 62 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 set | obj |
| 63 | on | on | ADP | _ | 66 tree | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 tree | det |
| 65 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 tree | amod |
| 66 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 set | obl |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | forester | the sound | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | last | to a high tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | a little child | the top of this not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location top=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | the mother | the tree with the child | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | |||
| 5 | see | past · perfect · passive | a bird of prey | mother's arms | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fly down | past · perfect | the top of this | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | |||||
| 7 | snatch away | past | sound | away property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | set | infinitive | sound | the high tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tree=Destination |
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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