Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 45
‘Alas! husband,’ replied she, ‘and a wicked bird has come into the house, and has brought with her all the birds in the world, I am sure, and they have fallen upon our corn in the loft, and are eating it up at such a rate!’
Who acts: husband, wicked bird, I, horses · What happens: reply, come, bring, be, fall, eat up · To what, where: house, birds, world, corn, bird, rate
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 (husband, wicked bird, I, horses), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | amod |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 birds | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 birds | det |
| 28 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 brought | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 birds | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sure | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 sure | nsubj |
| 34 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 sure | cop |
| 35 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brought | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fallen | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fallen | cc |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fallen | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 fallen | aux |
| 40 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 sure | conj |
| 41 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 43 corn | case |
| 42 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 corn | nmod:poss |
| 43 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fallen | obl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 loft | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 loft | det |
| 46 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 corn | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 eating | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 eating | cc |
| 49 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 eating | aux |
| 50 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | advcl |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 eating | obj |
| 52 | up | up | ADP | _ | 50 eating | compound:prt |
| 53 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 rate | case |
| 54 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 56 rate | det:predet |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 rate | det |
| 56 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 eating | obl |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 58 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | husband | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | a wicked bird | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bring | present · perfect | all birds | the world | with luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall | present · perfect | horses = horse | our corn in the loft | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon corn=Location | ||||
| 6 | eat up | present · progressive | husband not said here | bird | such rate | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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