Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 10
Off went the flock chattering away; but one fell down dead, and the cloak with it.
Who acts: flock, one · What happens: go, chatter away, fall down · To what, where: flock
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, one), 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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flock | det |
| 4 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 flock | acl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 chattering | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 dead | advmod |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cloak | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cloak | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cloak | det |
| 16 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cloak | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the flock | the cloak with cloak obl; off property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chatter away | gerund | the flock not said here | away property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | one | vn occur-48.3 «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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