Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 8
But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away.
Who acts: arrow · What happens: do, drop, fly away · To what, where: bird, golden feather, tail
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 (arrow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 arrow | det |
| 3 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 harm | det |
| 8 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 dropped | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 dropped | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dropped | nsubj |
| 12 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 feather | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feather | amod |
| 15 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dropped | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 tail | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tail | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dropped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flew | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 flew | advmod |
| 22 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dropped | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 flew | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the arrow | the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | arrow | a golden feather | arrow's tail | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from tail=Destination | |||
| 3 | fly away | past | arrow not said here | then | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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