Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 51
With that he jumped up in a rage, seized his hatchet, and threw it at the sparrow; but it missed her, and only broke the window.
Who acts: cruelty, hatchet · What happens: jump up, seize, throw, miss, break · To what, where: rage, hatchet, sparrow, window
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 (cruelty, hatchet), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 jumped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rage | det |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hatchet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sparrow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sparrow | det |
| 19 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 missed | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 missed | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 missed | nsubj |
| 23 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | parataxis |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 missed | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 broke | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 broke | cc |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 broke | advmod |
| 28 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 missed | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 window | det |
| 30 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 broke | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | cruelty | a rage | with that | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rage=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | seize | past | cruelty not said here | cruelty's hatchet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | hatchet | the sparrow | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at sparrow=Destination | ||||
| 4 | miss | past | hatchet | sparrow | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | break | past | hatchet not said here | the window | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=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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