Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 75
Then he called through the door to his wife: ‘Wife, come out; here is a bird, come and look at it and hear how beautifully it sings.’
Who acts: father, Wife, bird, door · What happens: call, come out, be, come, look, hear · To what, where: wife, door, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Wife, bird, door), 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 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wife | punct |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 bird | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bird | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 look | cc |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 look | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hear | cc |
| 28 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 look | conj |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 beautifully | advmod |
| 30 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 32 sings | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sings | nsubj |
| 32 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hear | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 look | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | father | father's wife | the door | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | ||
| 2 | come out | infinitive | Wife | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a bird | here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | a bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | a bird not said here | at door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hear | infinitive | a bird not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | present | door | beautifully property | 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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