Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 20
Then he took up his bow, and down fell the thrush into the bushes at the foot of the tree.
Who acts: countryman · What happens: take up, fall · To what, where: bow, thrush, bushes
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countryman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thrush | det |
| 12 | thrush | thrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 bushes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bushes | det |
| 15 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foot | det |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 foot | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | countryman | countryman's bow | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | countryman not said here | the thrush | the bushes | at the foot of the tree; down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient thrush=Result |
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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