Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 23
So he sat down, and the fox began to run, and away they went over stock and stone so quick that their hair whistled in the wind.
Who acts: fox, tidings, hair · What happens: sit down, begin, run, go, whistle · To what, where: stock
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, tidings, hair), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 stock | case |
| 18 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stone | cc |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stock | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 quick | advmod |
| 22 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 went | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 whistled | mark |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hair | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 whistled | nsubj |
| 26 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 quick | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wind | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wind | det |
| 29 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 whistled | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | fox | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the fox | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | tidings = tiding | stock and stone | away, quick property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over stock=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | whistle | participle | tidings's hair | in the wind | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=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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