Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 13

So she took him to a baker’s shop, and pecked at two rolls that lay in the window, till they fell down: and as the dog still wished for more, she took him to another shop and pecked down some more for him.

Who acts: sparrow, two rolls, rolls · What happens: take, peck, lay, fall down, wish, peck down · To what, where: dog, shop, window, more

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, two rolls, rolls), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	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 took	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 shop	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baker	det
7	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shop	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 baker	case
9	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pecked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pecked	cc
12	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 rolls	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 rolls	nummod
15	rolls	roll	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pecked	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 rolls	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 fell	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 fell	advmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 wished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wished	cc
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 dog	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dog	det
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wished	obl
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 wished	advmod
32	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 more	case
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 wished	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 took	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	nsubj
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 shop	case
40	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 shop	det
41	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 took	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 pecked	cc
43	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 took	conj
44	down	down	ADP	_	43 pecked	compound:prt
45	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 more	det
46	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 pecked	obj
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 more	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	sparrow	dog	a baker's shop			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to shop=Destination
2	peck	participle	sparrow not said here				at two rolls	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at roll=Patient
3	lay	present	two rolls		the window			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in window=Destination
4	fall down	past	rolls = roll				down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wish	past	sparrow not said here			still	as the dog; for more	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for more=Theme
6	take	past	sparrow	dog	another shop			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to shop=Destination
7	peck down	participle	sparrow not said here	some more				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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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