Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 58

And the wife struck; but she missed her aim, and hit her husband on the head so that he fell down dead, and the sparrow flew quietly home to her nest.

Who acts: wife, husband, sparrow · What happens: strike, miss, hit, fall down, fly, aim · To what, where: aim, husband, nest

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 (wife, husband, sparrow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 struck	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 missed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 missed	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 missed	nsubj
8	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 aim	nmod:poss
10	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 missed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hit	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hit	cc
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 missed	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 husband	nmod:poss
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 head	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 head	det
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obl
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 fell	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hit	advcl
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fell	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flew	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sparrow	det
28	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	nsubj
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
30	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	31 home	advmod
31	home	home	ADV	_	29 flew	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 nest	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 nest	nmod:poss
34	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the wife				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	miss	past	wife	wife's aim			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aim=Stimulus
3	hit	past	wife not said here	wife's husband		on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent husband=Instrument on head=Patient
4	fall down	past	husband			dead, down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fly	past	the sparrow		wife's nest	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination
6	aim		wife				nom aim «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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