Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 15

But the sausage remained so long away, that they became uneasy, and the bird flew out to meet him.

Who acts: sausage, mouse, bird · What happens: remain, become, fly out, meet · To what, where: bird

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, mouse, bird), 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 remained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sausage	det
3	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 remained	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 became	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remained	parataxis
12	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 became	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 flew	compound:prt
19	to	to	PART	_	20 meet	mark
20	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 flew	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 meet	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the sausage		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	mouse		uneasy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	fly out	past	the bird			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	to-infinitive	the bird not said here	bird		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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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