Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 82
‘Hither, hither, through the sky, Turtle-doves and linnets, fly!
Who acts: you · What happens: fly · To what, where: sky
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 (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fly | punct |
| 2 | Hither | hither | ADV | _ | 4 hither | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hither | punct |
| 4 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 16 fly | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hither | punct |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fly | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doves | punct |
| 10 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 doves | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Turtle | punct |
| 12 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sky | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 linnets | cc |
| 14 | linnets | linnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 doves | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sky | punct |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | imperative | you not said here | the sky and Turtle doves and linnets | hither property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sky=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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