Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 18

He picked up the wood, and flew sadly home, and told the mouse all he had seen and heard.

Who acts: bird · What happens: pick up, fly, tell, see, hear · To what, where: wood, mouse, all · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
9	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	home	home	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mouse	det
15	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 seen	nsubj:pass
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 seen	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	bird	the wood			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Topic
2	fly	past	bird not said here			home, sadly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	bird not said here		the mouse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient clause=Topic
4	see	past · perfect · passive		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	hear	participle					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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