Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 17
‘Very well,’ answered the sparrow, ‘do so, and in the meantime I will perch upon that bush.’
Who acts: sparrow, I · What happens: answer, do, perch · To what, where: sparrow, meantime
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, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sparrow | det |
| 8 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sparrow | acl:relcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 perch | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 perch | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 meantime | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 meantime | det |
| 17 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perch | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 perch | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 perch | aux |
| 20 | perch | perch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 bush | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 bush | det |
| 23 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perch | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the sparrow | well property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | the sparrow not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | perch | future | I | the meantime | upon that bush | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location |
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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