Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 22
In front of the door he observed a bird which had caught itself in the thicket.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: observe, catch · To what, where: bird, front, thicket
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 observed | nsubj |
| 7 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | aux |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bird | acl:relcl |
| 13 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 caught | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 thicket | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thicket | det |
| 16 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | tailor | a bird | front of the door | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||
| 2 | catch | past · perfect · passive | a bird | the thicket | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary itself=Theme |
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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