Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 21
The miser crept into the bush to find it; but directly he had got into the middle, his companion took up his fiddle and played away, and the miser began to dance and spring about, capering higher and higher in the air.
Who acts: miser, countryman, companion · What happens: creep, find, get, take up, play away, begin · To what, where: bush, miser, middle, fiddle
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 (miser, countryman, companion), 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 miser | det |
| 2 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bush | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bush | det |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crept | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 12 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 middle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 middle | det |
| 18 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 companion | nmod:poss |
| 21 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 took | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fiddle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 played | cc |
| 27 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 played | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 began | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 began | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 miser | det |
| 32 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 began | nsubj |
| 33 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 dance | mark |
| 35 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 began | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 spring | cc |
| 37 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 dance | conj |
| 38 | about | about | ADV | _ | 37 spring | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 capering | punct |
| 40 | capering | caper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 began | advcl |
| 41 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 capering | xcomp |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 higher | cc |
| 43 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 higher | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 air | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 air | det |
| 46 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 higher | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the miser | the bush | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the miser not said here | miser | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | countryman | the middle | directly property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into middle=Destination | |||
| 4 | take up | past | countryman's companion | countryman's fiddle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | play away | past | countryman's companion not said here | away property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | the miser | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | dance | to-infinitive | the miser not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | spring | infinitive | the miser not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | caper | gerund | the miser not said here | high property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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