Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 20
An owl with fiery eyes flew three times round them, and three times screamed:
Who acts: owl · What happens: fly, scream
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 owl | det |
| 2 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 owl | nmod |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 screamed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 screamed | cc |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 screamed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 flew | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | a owl with fiery eyes | time | round eyes = eye | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | participle | a owl with fiery eyes not said here | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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