Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 87
The bird settled on a lime-tree in front of the mill and sang:
Who acts: bird · What happens: settle, sing · To what, where: bird, lime tree
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), 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 | 15 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bird | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lime | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mill | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mill | det |
| 13 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 front | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sang | cc |
| 15 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | participle | the bird not said here | a lime tree | in front of the mill | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the bird | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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