Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 22
In his alarm and flurry, he threw the wood here and there about the floor, called and searched, but no cook was to be found.
Who acts: bird · What happens: throw, call, search, find, alarm · To what, where: wood, alarm, floor, cook · 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 alarm | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 alarm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flurry | cc |
| 5 | flurry | flurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alarm | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 alarm | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 threw | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 there | cc |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 here | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 floor | acl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 searched | cc |
| 20 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 called | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 found | cc |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 cook | det |
| 24 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 threw | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | bird | the wood | bird's alarm and flurry; here | about the floor | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wood=Theme in alarm=Destination | ||
| 2 | call | participle | the floor not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | search | participle | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | no cook | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | alarm | bird | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=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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