Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 36

But the sparrow answered, ‘Not wretch enough yet!’ and perched on the head of the second horse, and pecked at him too.

Who acts: sparrow · What happens: answer, perch, peck · To what, where: wretch, 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 (sparrow), 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 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wretch	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 wretch	punct
7	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 wretch	advmod
8	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obj
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 wretch	advmod
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 wretch	advmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 wretch	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 wretch	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 perched	cc
14	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 answered	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 head	det
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 perched	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 horse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horse	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 horse	amod
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pecked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pecked	cc
24	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 answered	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pecked	obl
27	too	too	ADV	_	24 pecked	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the sparrow	wretch			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wretch=Eventuality
2	perch	participle	the sparrow not said here		the head of the second horse		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
3	peck	participle	the sparrow not said here			at harm	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=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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