Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 117
The bird now flew to the juniper-tree and began singing:
Who acts: bird · What happens: fly, begin, sing
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | juniper | juniper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 juniper | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 12 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 began | xcomp |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the bird | now | to the juniper tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the bird not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the bird not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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