Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 44
Then the fox stretched out his tail, and so away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled again.
Who acts: guards · What happens: stretch out, 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 (guards), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretched | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 stock | case |
| 15 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stone | cc |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stock | conj |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 hair | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 21 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hair | acl |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 whistled | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | participle · passive | the fox | then | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient tail=Result | ||||
| 2 | go | past | guards = guard | stock and stone | till guards's hair | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over stock=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | whistle | participle | guards's hair not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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