Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 18
He has a bird’s heart that brings a piece of gold under his pillow every morning.’
Who acts: man, heart · What happens: have, bring · To what, where: heart, piece, pillow
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 (man, heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 bird | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 brings | nsubj |
| 8 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heart | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 pillow | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | obl |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 morning | det |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | man | a bird's heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | a bird's heart | a piece of gold | man's pillow | morning | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent piece=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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