Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 18
The girl looked up and saw that the voice came from a bird hanging in a cage on the wall.
Who acts: girl, voice, bird · What happens: look up, see, come, hang · To what, where: cage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, voice, 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 bird | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cage | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cage | det |
| 17 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hanging | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 wall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wall | det |
| 20 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hanging | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | the girl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the voice | from a bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bird=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | a bird not said here | a cage | on the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location |
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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