Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 71
Then he flew away, and settled on the roof of a shoemaker’s house and sang:
Who acts: father · What happens: fly away, settle, sing
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 (father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 settled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 settled | cc |
| 7 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 roof | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 settled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shoemaker | det |
| 13 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 shoemaker | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roof | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sang | cc |
| 17 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | father | then | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | settle | participle | father not said here | on the roof of a shoemaker's house | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on roof=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | father 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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