Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 114
Then the bird came flying towards the house and settled on the roof.
Who acts: bird · What happens: come, fly, settle · To what, where: house
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 (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 | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flying | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 settled | cc |
| 10 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 house | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 settled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the bird | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | the bird not said here | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards house=Destination | ||||
| 3 | settle | participle | the bird not said here | on the roof | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on roof=Topic |
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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