Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 69
The bird flew down and took the gold chain in his right claw, and then he alighted again in front of the goldsmith and sang:
Who acts: bird, goldsmith · What happens: fly down, take, alight, sing · To what, where: gold chain, right claw, front
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, goldsmith), 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 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chain | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chain | compound |
| 9 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 claw | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 claw | nmod:poss |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 claw | amod |
| 13 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 alighted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 alighted | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 alighted | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 alighted | nsubj |
| 18 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 alighted | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 alighted | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 goldsmith | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 goldsmith | det |
| 24 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 front | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sang | cc |
| 26 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 alighted | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | past | the bird | down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the bird not said here | the gold chain | goldsmith's right claw | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chain=Value in claw=Location | |||
| 3 | alight | participle | goldsmith | front of the goldsmith | then; again | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | goldsmith 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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