Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 1
Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.
Who acts: sausage · What happens: enter, set up · To what, where: partnership, house
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sausage), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mouse | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mouse | det |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mouse | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 entered | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sausage | det |
| 14 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entered | punct |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Once | parataxis |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 partnership | case |
| 18 | partnership | partnership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 entered | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | participle | a sausage | partnership | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into partnership=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | set up | participle | a sausage not said here | house | together property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result |
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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