Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 56

But the sparrow began to flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, ‘Carter! it shall cost thee thy life yet!’

Who acts: sparrow, Carter · What happens: begin, flutter, stretch out, cry, cost · To what, where: neck, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 flutter	mark
6	flutter	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 flutter	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stretch	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stretch	cc
10	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 stretch	compound:prt
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 neck	nmod:poss
13	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stretch	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	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	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 cost	advmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the sparrow				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	flutter	to-infinitive	the sparrow not said here			about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stretch out	infinitive	the sparrow not said here	sparrow's neck			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
4	cry speech: express	past	the sparrow not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	cost	shall	Carter	thee	yet		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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