Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 12

They therefore drew lots, and it fell to the sausage to bring in the wood, to the mouse to cook, and to the bird to fetch the water.

Who acts: mouse, venture · What happens: draw, fall, bring, cook, fetch · To what, where: lots, mouse, wood, water

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 (mouse, venture), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sausage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sausage	det
11	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bring	mark
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fell	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mouse	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 mouse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mouse	det
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cook	mark
22	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 mouse	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bird	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bird	cc
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 bird	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fetch	mark
29	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bird	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fetch	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	mouse	lots			therefore property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
2	fall	past	venture				to the sausage	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sausage=Theme
3	bring	to-infinitive	venture not said here		the mouse	the wood		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mouse=Destination
4	cook	to-infinitive	venture not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	fetch	to-infinitive	mouse not said here	the water				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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