Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 46
Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor eating up his corn, with the sparrow in the midst of them.
Who acts: birds · What happens: run, see, sit, eat up · To what, where: husband, thousands, floor, corn
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 (birds), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 husband | det |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obj |
| 5 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thousands | nmod |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 birds | acl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sitting | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 eating | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 corn | nmod:poss |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eating | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sparrow | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sparrow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sparrow | det |
| 23 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eating | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 midst | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 midst | det |
| 26 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sparrow | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 midst | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the husband | away, upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | thousands of birds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | birds not said here | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon floor=Location | ||||
| 4 | eat up | gerund | birds not said here | husband's corn | with the sparrow in the midst of horses | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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