Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 38
Then he pushed him in head first, tied up the sack, and soon swung up the searcher after wisdom dangling in the air.
Who acts: sack, searcher · What happens: push, tie up, swing up, dangle · To what, where: gardener, head, sack, searcher, air
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sack, searcher), 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 pushed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pushed | nsubj |
| 3 | pushed | push | 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 pushed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | obl |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 pushed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tied | punct |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pushed | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 tied | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sack | det |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swung | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swung | cc |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 swung | advmod |
| 16 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pushed | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 swung | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 searcher | det |
| 19 | searcher | searcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swung | obj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 wisdom | case |
| 21 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 searcher | nmod |
| 22 | dangling | dangle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 searcher | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dangling | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | sack | gardener | head | then | first property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in head=Trajectory | |
| 2 | tie up | participle | sack not said here | the sack | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient | ||||
| 3 | swing up | participle | the searcher | after wisdom | soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent searcher=Theme | |||
| 4 | dangle | gerund | the searcher not said here | the air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=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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