Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 73
The shoemaker heard him, and he jumped up and ran out in his shirt-sleeves, and stood looking up at the bird on the roof with his hand over his eyes to keep himself from being blinded by the sun.
Who acts: shoemaker, father, sun. · What happens: hear, jump up, run out, stand, look up, keep · To what, where: father, shirt sleeves, eyes, 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 (shoemaker, father, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shoemaker | det |
| 2 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 jumped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 jumped | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 jumped | nsubj |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 jumped | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jumped | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 ran | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sleeves | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sleeves | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 shirt | punct |
| 17 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 stood | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 looking | compound:prt |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 bird | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 roof | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 roof | det |
| 28 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 eyes | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stood | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 keep | mark |
| 36 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 stood | advcl |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 keep | obj |
| 38 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 40 blinded | mark |
| 39 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 blinded | aux:pass |
| 40 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 keep | advcl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 sun. | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sun. | det |
| 43 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 blinded | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the shoemaker | father | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | jump up | past | father | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run out | past | father not said here | father's shirt sleeves | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleeve=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the shoemaker not said here | father's eyes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | look up | gerund | the shoemaker not said here | the roof | at the bird; with father's hand | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme | |||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | the shoemaker not said here | father | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 7 | blind | gerund · passive | the sun. | tree rules |
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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