Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 58
This, too, happened as the fox said; they carried off the bird, the princess mounted again, and they rode on to a great wood.
Who acts: This, fox, spurs · What happens: happen, say, carry off, mount, ride on · To what, where: bird, princess, great wood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, fox, spurs), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 happened | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 too | punct |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | parataxis |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 princess | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bird | conj |
| 19 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 princess | acl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 mounted | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rode | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rode | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rode | nsubj |
| 24 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carried | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 rode | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wood | amod |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rode | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | This | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | carry off | past | spurs = spur | the bird and the princess | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mount | participle | the princess not said here | again | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ride on | past | spurs = spur | a great wood | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to wood=Trajectory |
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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