Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 2
At last he could bear it no longer; so he took to his heels, and off he ran in a very sad and sorrowful mood.
Who acts: dog · What happens: bear, take, run · To what, where: master, last, sad mood
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 (dog), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bear | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | aux |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | obj |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 bear | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 took | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 heels | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heels | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 ran | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mood | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mood | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sad | advmod |
| 24 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 mood | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sorrowful | cc |
| 26 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sad | conj |
| 27 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | could | dog | master | last | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 2 | take | past | dog | to dog's heels result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result | ||||
| 3 | run | past | dog | a sad mood | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mood=Trajectory |
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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