Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 147
But as she crossed the threshold, crash! the bird threw the millstone down on her head, and she was crushed to death.
Who acts: bird · What happens: cross, throw down, crush · To what, where: threshold, millstone, head, bird
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 crossed | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threw | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 threshold | det |
| 6 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crash | punct |
| 8 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threshold | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | nsubj |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 millstone | det |
| 14 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 threw | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 crushed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 crushed | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 crushed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 crushed | aux:pass |
| 23 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 threw | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crushed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | bird | the threshold and crash | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient | ||||
| 2 | throw down | past | the bird | the millstone | bird's head | down property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent millstone=Theme on head=Destination | ||
| 3 | crush | past · passive | bird | to death result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to death=Result |
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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