Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 109
And when he had finished his song, he spread his wings, and with the chain in his right claw, the shoes in his left, and the millstone round his neck, he flew right away to his father’s house.
Who acts: father · What happens: finish, spread, fly, sing · To what, where: song, wings
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spread | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 spread | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 song | nmod:poss |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spread | nsubj |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spread | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chain | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chain | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 chain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chain | det |
| 17 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 claw | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 claw | nmod:poss |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 claw | amod |
| 21 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chain | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shoes | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shoes | det |
| 24 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 claw | appos |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 left | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 left | nmod:poss |
| 27 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shoes | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 millstone | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 millstone | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 millstone | det |
| 31 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | obl |
| 32 | round | round | ADP | _ | 34 neck | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 neck | nmod:poss |
| 34 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 millstone | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 flew | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 flew | nsubj |
| 37 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spread | conj |
| 38 | right | right | ADV | _ | 39 away | advmod |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 flew | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 house | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 father | nmod:poss |
| 42 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 house | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 father | case |
| 44 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 away | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | father | father's song | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector song=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | father | father's wings | the millstone round father's neck obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly | past | father | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | father | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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