Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 24

The bird hastened to fetch some water, but his pail fell into the well, and he after it, and as he was unable to recover himself, he was drowned.

Who acts: bird · What happens: hasten, fetch, fall, be, recover, drown · To what, where: bird, water, well

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hastened	xcomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pail	nmod:poss
11	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 well	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 well	det
15	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 it	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 it	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 it	nsubj
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 drowned	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 drowned	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 unable	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 unable	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 unable	cop
26	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 drowned	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 recover	mark
28	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 unable	xcomp
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 recover	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 unable	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 drowned	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 drowned	aux:pass
33	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fell	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hasten	participle		the bird not said here			tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive		some water			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	fall	past	the bird		after pail	into the well result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result
4	is	past	bird			unable property	tree rules
5	recover	to-infinitive	bird not said here	bird			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	drown	past · passive		bird			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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