Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 7
As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener’s son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
Who acts: son, bird, that · What happens: strike, hear, come, fly, be, snap · To what, where: twelve, rustling noise, air, arrow
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, bird, that), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 clock | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clock | det |
| 3 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 struck | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 9 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noise | compound |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 19 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 gold | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gold | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 23 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gold | amod |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flying | ccomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 snapping | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 snapping | cc |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 snapping | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 snapping | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 snapping | aux |
| 30 | snapping | snap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 struck | advcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 snapping | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 apples | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 apples | det |
| 35 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 one | nmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 beak | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 beak | nmod:poss |
| 38 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 apples | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 jumped | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 gardener | det |
| 41 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 son | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 gardener | case |
| 43 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 jumped | nsubj |
| 44 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 one | parataxis |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 jumped | compound:prt |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 shot | cc |
| 47 | shot | shot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 jumped | conj |
| 48 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 arrow | det |
| 49 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 shot | obj |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 it | case |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 shot | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | twelve | as the clock | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | son | a rustling noise | the air | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | come | past | a bird | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | a bird not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | that | of pure gold | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | snap | past · progressive | bird | at one of the apples with bird's beak | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location | ||||
| 7 | jump up | past | the gardener's son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | shot | infinitive | the gardener's son not said here | a arrow | at bird | tree rules |
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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