Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 93
Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.
Who acts: friend, bird · What happens: fly out, bring, spangle, put on, follow · To what, where: tree, gold, slippers, sisters, feast
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 (friend, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 flew | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gold | det |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dress | cc |
| 17 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dress | amod |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gold | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slippers | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 slippers | cc |
| 23 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 silk | case |
| 25 | spangled | spangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 silk | amod |
| 26 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slippers | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | nsubj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 put | compound:prt |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 followed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 followed | cc |
| 35 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 37 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 followed | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 feast | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 feast | det |
| 40 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 followed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past | ASHPUTTEL's friend | the tree | then | slippers of spangled silk obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||
| 2 | bring | past | ASHPUTTEL's friend not said here | a gold and silver dress | for ASHPUTTEL | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 3 | spangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | put on | past | bird | slippers = slipper | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||||
| 5 | follow | past | ASHPUTTEL's friend not said here | ASHPUTTEL's sisters | the feast | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to feast=Trajectory |
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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