Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 8

When he had gone a hundred steps or so, he heard a screaming and chirping in the branches over him, and looked up and saw a flock of birds pulling a cloak with their bills and feet; screaming, fighting, and tugging at each other as if each wished to have it himself.

Who acts: huntsman, birds · What happens: go, hear, scream, chirp, look up, see · To what, where: hundred steps, branches, flock, cloak, each

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 (huntsman, birds), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 heard	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 steps	nummod
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 so	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	7 steps	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 screaming	det
14	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 heard	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 chirping	cc
16	chirping	chirp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 screaming	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 branches	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 branches	det
19	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 chirping	obl
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 chirping	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 looked	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 looked	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 flock	det
29	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 birds	case
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flock	nmod
32	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 birds	acl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cloak	det
34	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pulling	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 bills	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 bills	nmod:poss
37	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pulling	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 feet	cc
39	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bills	conj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 screaming	punct
41	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 heard	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fighting	punct
43	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 screaming	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tugging	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 tugging	cc
46	tugging	tug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 screaming	conj
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 each	case
48	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	46 tugging	obl
49	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 each	fixed
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 wished	mark
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 wished	mark
52	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	53 wished	nsubj:pass
53	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 tugging	advcl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 have	mark
55	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 wished	xcomp
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 have	obj
57	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 have	obl:unmarked
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	huntsman	hundred steps			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
2	hear	past	huntsman				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	scream speech: express	gerund	huntsman not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	chirp	gerund	huntsman not said here		the branches	over huntsman	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look up	past					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	see	past		a flock of birds			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus
7	pull	gerund	birds not said here	a cloak		with birds's bills and feet	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme
8	scream speech: express	gerund	huntsman not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	fight	gerund	huntsman not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	tug	gerund	huntsman not said here			at each	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
11	wish	participle · passive		each			tree rules
12	have not said to happen	to-infinitive		cloak		huntsman obl:unmarked	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
13	bill		birds = bird				nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=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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