Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 16

He had not flown far, however, when he came across a dog who, having met the sausage, had regarded him as his legitimate booty, and so seized and swallowed him.

Who acts: bird, dog · What happens: not fly, come, meet, regard, seize, swallow · To what, where: bird, sausage

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 (bird, dog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flown	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flown	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 flown	advmod
4	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 flown	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	4 flown	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flown	parataxis
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 dog	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 met	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 met	punct
17	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 met	aux
18	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 dog	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sausage	det
20	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 regarded	punct
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 regarded	aux
23	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 came	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 regarded	obj
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 booty	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 booty	nmod:poss
27	legitimate	legitimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 booty	amod
28	booty	booty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 regarded	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seized	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seized	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 seized	advmod
32	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flown	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 swallowed	cc
34	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seized	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 swallowed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not fly	past · perfect · passive		bird	far, however property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past	bird		across a dog	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across dog=Initial_Location
3	meet	gerund · perfect	a dog	the sausage		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Co-Agent
4	regard	past · perfect	bird not said here	bird	as bird's legitimate booty	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent he=Theme as booty=Value
5	seize	past				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	swallow	past		bird		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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