Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 5

And so it came to pass, that the bird, while out one day, met a fellow bird, to whom he boastfully expatiated on the excellence of his household arrangements.

Who acts: sausage, one day, bird · What happens: come, pass, meet, expatiate, arrange · To what, where: bird, fellow bird, excellence

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 (sausage, one day, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pass	mark
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bird	punct
8	that	that	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pass	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 met	mark
13	out	out	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bird	det
19	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bird	amod
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 expatiated	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 expatiated	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 expatiated	nsubj
25	boastfully	boastfully	ADV	_	26 expatiated	advmod
26	expatiated	expatiate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 met	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 excellence	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 excellence	det
29	excellence	excellence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 expatiated	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 arrangements	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 arrangements	nmod:poss
32	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 arrangements	compound
33	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 excellence	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	sausage				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	sausage not said here	the bird			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Trajectory
3	meet	past	one day	a fellow bird			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Co-Agent
4	expatiate	participle	bird		the excellence of bird's household arrangements	boastfully property	tree rules
5	arrange		bird				nom arrangement «cognition 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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