Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 7
As he jogged along over the fields, singing and dancing, a little dwarf met him, and asked him what made him so merry.
Who acts: fellow, little dwarf · What happens: jog, sing, meet, ask, make · To what, where: fields, dancing, fellow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fellow, little dwarf), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 jogged | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jogged | nsubj |
| 3 | jogged | jog | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 jogged | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 fields | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jogged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 singing | punct |
| 9 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 jogged | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dancing | cc |
| 11 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 singing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dwarf | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dwarf | amod |
| 15 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dancing | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jogged | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 merry | advmod |
| 26 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jogged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jog | past | fellow | the fields | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | fellow not said here | dancing | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dancing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | a little dwarf | fellow | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | fellow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make | past | fellow | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |
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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