Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 121

‘Look, mother,’ said the man, ‘at the beautiful bird that is singing so magnificently; and how warm and bright the sun is, and what a delicious scent of spice in the air!’

Who acts: man, beautiful bird · What happens: look, say, sing, be, scent · To what, where: mother, spice, air · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, beautiful 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bird	punct
11	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	15 bird	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 bird	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bird	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bird	amod
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 singing	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 singing	aux
18	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 bird	acl:relcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 magnificently	advmod
20	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	_	18 singing	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 warm	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 warm	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 warm	advmod
24	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bright	cc
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 warm	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 warm	conj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 warm	cop
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 what	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 what	cc
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	ccomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 scent	det
34	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 scent	amod
35	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 what	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 spice	case
37	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 scent	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 air	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 air	det
40	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 scent	nmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 what	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive		mother			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sing speech: express	present · progressive	the beautiful bird			magnificently property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present				warm property	tree rules
5	be						tree rules
6	scent			spice	the air		nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place

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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