Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 34
Then the son sat down on the fox’s tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
Who acts: son, apples · What happens: sit down, go, whistle · To what, where: tail, 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 (son, apples), 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 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 tail | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 fox | case |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 stock | case |
| 17 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stone | cc |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stock | conj |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 hair | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 23 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hair | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 wind | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whistled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the son | the fox's tail | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | apples = apple | stock and stone | till apples's hair | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over stock=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | whistle | participle | apples'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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