Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 30

‘Not wretch enough yet!’ said the sparrow, as she alighted upon the head of one of the horses, and pecked at him till he reared up and kicked.

Who acts: wretch, harm · What happens: say, alight, peck, rear up, kick · To what, where: sparrow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wretch, harm), 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	_	3 wretch	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 wretch	advmod
3	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 yet	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 wretch	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sparrow	det
10	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 alighted	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 alighted	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 alighted	nsubj
14	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 head	det
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 alighted	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 head	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 horses	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horses	det
22	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pecked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pecked	cc
25	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 alighted	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pecked	obl
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 reared	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reared	nsubj
30	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pecked	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 reared	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kicked	cc
33	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 reared	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wretch	the sparrow		tree rules
2	alight	participle	wretch		upon the head of one of the horses	tree rules
3	peck	participle	wretch not said here		at harm	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient
4	rear up	past	harm			vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	kick	participle	harm not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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