Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 52
The sparrow now hopped in, perched upon the window-seat, and cried, ‘Carter! it shall cost thee thy life!’
Who acts: sparrow, Carter · What happens: hop in, perch, cry, cost · To what, where: window seat, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Carter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sparrow | det |
| 2 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hopped | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hopped | advmod |
| 4 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 hopped | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 perched | punct |
| 7 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hopped | conj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 seat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seat | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seat | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 window | punct |
| 12 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hopped | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Carter | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Carter | punct |
| 18 | Carter | Carter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 cost | nsubj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Carter | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cost | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 cost | aux |
| 22 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | ccomp |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 cost | obj |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cost | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 cost | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop in | past | the sparrow | now | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | perch | participle | the sparrow not said here | the window seat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon seat=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the sparrow not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cost | shall | Carter | thee | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme thou=Beneficiary life=Value |
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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