Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 53

Then he became mad and blind with rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place, the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches, the table, and at last the walls, without touching the bird at all.

Who acts: cruelty, sparrow, wife, rage · What happens: become, strike, cleft, fly, be, break · To what, where: window seat, seat, two, place, furniture, bird

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, sparrow, wife, rage), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 became	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 blind	cc
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mad	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 rage	case
8	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blind	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 struck	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 struck	cc
11	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seat	det
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seat	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 window	punct
15	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 force	case
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 force	amod
18	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 cleft	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cleft	nsubj
21	cleft	cleft	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 struck	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cleft	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 two	case
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 cleft	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 flew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flew	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 flew	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sparrow	det
29	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	nsubj
30	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	parataxis
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 place	case
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 place	case
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 carter	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 carter	det
37	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 place	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 furious	cc
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 wife	nmod:poss
40	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 furious	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 furious	cop
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 furious	advmod
43	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 flew	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 broke	punct
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 broke	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 broke	nsubj
47	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 flew	conj
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 furniture	det:predet
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 furniture	nmod:poss
50	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 broke	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 glasses	punct
52	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 furniture	appos
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 chairs	punct
54	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 glasses	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 benches	punct
56	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 glasses	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 table	punct
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 table	det
59	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 furniture	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 last	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 last	cc
62	at	at	ADP	_	63 last	case
63	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	conj
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 walls	det
65	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 last	nsubj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 touching	punct
67	without	without	SCONJ	_	68 touching	mark
68	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 last	advcl
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 bird	det
70	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 touching	obj
71	at	at	ADP	_	72 all	case
72	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	70 bird	nmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	cruelty			then	mad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	strike	past	cruelty not said here	the window seat			with such force	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent seat=Patient with force=Instrument
3	cleft	infinitive	cruelty	seat	two			tree rules
4	fly	past	the sparrow		place		to place and the carter	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from place=Initial_Location to place=Destination
5	is	past	cruelty's wife				furious property	tree rules
6	break	past	rage	rage's furniture and the table				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer furniture=Patient
7	touch	gerund	cruelty not said here	the bird	all			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme

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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