Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 26

Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.

Who acts: young man, tidings · What happens: stretch out, sit down, go, whistle · To what, where: fox, stock, hair

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 (young man, tidings), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stretched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	nsubj:pass
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 stretched	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 stretched	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	parataxis
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 sat	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
19	away	away	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 stock	case
23	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stone	cc
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stock	conj
26	till	till	ADP	_	28 hair	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hair	nmod:poss
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
29	whistled	whistle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hair	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 wind	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wind	det
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 whistled	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	participle · passive		the fox		then; again		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient tail=Result
2	sit down	past	the young man	fox				tree rules
3	go	past	tidings = tiding		stock and stone	till tidings's hair	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over stock=Initial_Location
4	whistle	participle		tidings's hair not said here			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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