Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 31
When the carter saw this, he drew out his hatchet and aimed a blow at the sparrow, meaning to kill her; but she flew away, and the blow fell upon the poor horse’s head with such force, that he fell down dead.
Who acts: carter, harm, sparrow, blow · What happens: see, draw out, aim, mean, kill, fly away · To what, where: this, hatchet, blow, sparrow, head
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 (carter, harm, sparrow, blow), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carter | det |
| 3 | carter | carter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drew | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 drew | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hatchet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 aimed | cc |
| 13 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drew | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blow | det |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 aimed | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 sparrow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sparrow | det |
| 18 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blow | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 meaning | punct |
| 20 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 aimed | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 kill | mark |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 meaning | xcomp |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 flew | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 flew | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 flew | nsubj |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drew | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 flew | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fell | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fell | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 blow | det |
| 32 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | nsubj |
| 33 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 flew | conj |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 head | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 horse | det |
| 36 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 horse | amod |
| 37 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 head | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 horse | case |
| 39 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 force | case |
| 41 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 force | amod |
| 42 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 head | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fell | punct |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 fell | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 fell | nsubj |
| 46 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 fell | conj |
| 47 | down | down | ADV | _ | 46 fell | advmod |
| 48 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 fell | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the carter | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | draw out | past | harm | harm's hatchet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | aim | past | harm not said here | a blow | the sparrow | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blow=Theme | |||
| 4 | mean | gerund | harm not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | harm not said here | sparrow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fly away | past | sparrow | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fall | past | the blow | the poor horse's head with such force | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon head=Location | ||||
| 8 | fall down | past | harm | dead, down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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