Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 20

The sparrow, seeing that the carter did not turn out of the way, but would go on in the track in which the dog lay, so as to drive over him, called out, ‘Stop! stop!

Who acts: sparrow, carter, dog · What happens: see, not turn out, go on, lie, drive, call out · To what, where: way, track, stop

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, carter, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sparrow	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 turn	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carter	det
7	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 turn	advmod
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seeing	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 way	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 track	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 track	det
22	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lay	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dog	det
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 track	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 drive	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	32 drive	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 drive	mark
31	to	to	PART	_	32 drive	mark
32	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	parataxis
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 drive	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 called	punct
36	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 drive	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 called	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Stop	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 Stop	punct
40	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 stop	punct
42	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Stop	obj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the sparrow not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not turn out	past · do-support	the carter	the way			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	go on	would	the sparrow		the track		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in track=Location
4	lie	past	the dog		the track		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
5	drive	to-infinitive				over dog	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Trajectory
6	call out speech: assert	participle					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	stop	infinitive	the sparrow not said here	stop			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stop=Eventuality

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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