Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 60
The goldsmith was in his workshop making a gold chain, when he heard the song of the bird on his roof.
Who acts: goldsmith, workshop, bird · What happens: be, make, hear, sing · To what, where: workshop, gold chain, song, roof
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 (goldsmith, workshop, 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 goldsmith | det |
| 2 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 workshop | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 workshop | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 workshop | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 workshop | nmod:poss |
| 6 | workshop | workshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 workshop | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chain | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chain | compound |
| 10 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 heard | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 workshop | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 song | det |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 song | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 roof | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 roof | nmod:poss |
| 22 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 workshop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the goldsmith | goldsmith's workshop | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | goldsmith's workshop not said here | a gold chain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | goldsmith | the song of the bird | goldsmith's roof | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sing | the bird | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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