Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 3
The bird’s duty was to fly daily into the wood and bring in fuel; the mouse fetched the water, and the sausage saw to the cooking.
Who acts: duty, mouse, sausage · What happens: be, bring, fetch, see · To what, where: wood, fuel, water
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 (duty, mouse, sausage), 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 | 4 duty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 7 fly | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bring | cc |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fly | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fuel | case |
| 15 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fetched | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mouse | det |
| 18 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fetched | nsubj |
| 19 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fetched | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saw | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 saw | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sausage | det |
| 25 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fetched | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 cooking | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cooking | det |
| 29 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bird's duty | the wood | daily, fly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | the bird's duty not said here | fuel | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fetch | past | the mouse | the water | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | the sausage | to the cooking | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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