Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 6

So on they went together into the town: and as they passed by a butcher’s shop, the sparrow said to the dog, ‘Stand there a little while till I peck you down a piece of meat.’

Who acts: heels, sparrow, I · What happens: go together, pass, say, stand, peck down · To what, where: town, you · 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 (heels, sparrow, I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 passed	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 passed	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 passed	nsubj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 shop	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 butcher	det
16	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shop	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 butcher	case
18	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sparrow	det
21	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 dog	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Stand	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Stand	punct
28	Stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 Stand	expl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 while	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 while	amod
32	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Stand	obl:unmarked
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 peck	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 peck	nsubj
35	peck	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Stand	advcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 peck	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 peck	compound:prt
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 piece	det
39	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 peck	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 meat	case
41	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 piece	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go together	past	heels = heel		the town		together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
2	pass	past	heels = heel				by a butcher's shop	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by shop=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the sparrow				to the dog	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to dog=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	stand	infinitive			there	while		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	peck down	present	I	you				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent you=Patient piece=Result

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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