Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 62
But he ran on into the middle of the street, with a slipper on one foot and a sock on the other; he still had on his apron, and still held the gold chain and the pincers in his hands, and so he stood gazing up at the bird, while the sun came shining brightly down on the street.
Who acts: goldsmith, sun · What happens: run on, have, hold, stand, gaze up, come · To what, where: middle, apron, gold chain, hands, street
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, sun), 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 | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 middle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 middle | det |
| 7 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 street | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 street | det |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 middle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slipper | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 slipper | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 slipper | det |
| 14 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 foot | nummod |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sock | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sock | det |
| 20 | sock | sock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foot | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 other | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 other | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 had | advmod |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 apron | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 apron | nmod:poss |
| 30 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 held | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 held | cc |
| 33 | still | still | ADV | _ | 34 held | advmod |
| 34 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 chain | det |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 chain | compound |
| 37 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 held | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 pincers | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pincers | det |
| 40 | pincers | pincer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 chain | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 hands | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hands | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 held | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 stood | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 stood | cc |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 stood | advmod |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 stood | nsubj |
| 48 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 49 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 stood | xcomp |
| 50 | up | up | ADP | _ | 49 gazing | compound:prt |
| 51 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 bird | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 bird | det |
| 53 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 gazing | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 came | punct |
| 55 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 58 came | mark |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 sun | det |
| 57 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 came | nsubj |
| 58 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 stood | conj |
| 59 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 58 came | xcomp |
| 60 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 61 down | advmod |
| 61 | down | down | ADV | _ | 59 shining | advmod |
| 62 | on | on | ADP | _ | 64 street | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 street | det |
| 64 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 shining | obl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run on | past | goldsmith | into the middle of the street result; with a slipper; on one foot and a sock; on the other | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into middle=Result | ||||
| 2 | have | past | goldsmith | goldsmith's apron | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | hold | past | goldsmith not said here | the gold chain and the pincers | goldsmith's hands | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chain=Theme in hand=Location | ||
| 4 | stand | past | goldsmith | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | gaze up | gerund | goldsmith not said here | at the bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | shine | gerund | the sun not said here | the street | down property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on street=Location |
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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