Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 14

The sausage started in search of wood, the bird made the fire, and the mouse put on the pot, and then these two waited till the sausage returned with the fuel for the following day.

Who acts: sausage, bird, mouse · What happens: start, make, put, wait, return, follow · To what, where: search, fire, mouse, pot, sausage, wood

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, bird, mouse), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sausage	det
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 search	case
5	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 search	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 waited	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 waited	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mouse	det
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waited	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 mouse	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 pot	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pot	det
21	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 waited	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 waited	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 waited	advmod
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 two	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 waited	nsubj
27	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
28	till	till	ADP	_	30 sausage	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sausage	det
30	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waited	obl
31	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 sausage	acl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 fuel	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fuel	det
34	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 returned	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 day	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 day	det
37	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 day	amod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 returned	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the sausage		search of wood			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	make	past	the bird	the fire				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	put	participle		the mouse not said here	the pot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pot=Destination
4	wait	past	the mouse			till the sausage; then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	participle		the sausage not said here		day	with the fuel	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	search			wood				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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