Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 27

But the sparrow crept under the tilt of the cart, and pecked at the bung of one of the casks till she loosened it; and then all the wine ran out, without the carter seeing it.

Who acts: sparrow, wine, carter, cart · What happens: creep, peck, loosen, run out, see, tilt · To what, where: tilt, bung, wine

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, wine, carter, cart), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 crept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 tilt	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tilt	det
7	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cart	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cart	det
10	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tilt	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pecked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pecked	cc
13	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 crept	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 bung	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bung	det
16	bung	bung	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pecked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 bung	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 casks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 casks	det
21	casks	cask	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 loosened	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 loosened	nsubj
24	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pecked	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 loosened	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 ran	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ran	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 ran	advmod
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 wine	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wine	det
31	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ran	nsubj
32	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 ran	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 carter	punct
35	without	without	ADP	_	37 carter	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 carter	det
37	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ran	obl
38	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 carter	acl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seeing	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	the sparrow		the tilt of the cart			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tilt=Trajectory
2	peck	participle	the sparrow not said here				at the bung of one of the casks	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at bung=Patient
3	loosen	past	sparrow	bung				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	run out	past	all wine			then	without the carter	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	gerund	the carter not said here	wine				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	tilt		the cart					nom tilt «event intransitive»: of=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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