Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 58
The bird flew away and alighted on the house of a goldsmith and began to sing:
Who acts: bird · What happens: fly away, alight, begin, sing · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 alighted | cc |
| 6 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alighted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 goldsmith | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 goldsmith | det |
| 12 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sing | mark |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the bird | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | alight | participle | the bird not said here | the house of a goldsmith | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the bird not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | 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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