Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 7

So the sparrow perched upon the shelf: and having first looked carefully about her to see if anyone was watching her, she pecked and scratched at a steak that lay upon the edge of the shelf, till at last down it fell.

Who acts: sparrow, having, anyone, steak, shelf · What happens: perch, have, look, see, watch, peck · To what, where: shelf, sparrow, edge

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, having, anyone, steak), 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 perched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perched	nsubj
4	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 shelf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shelf	det
7	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perched	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
10	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 looked	csubj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 having	advmod
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perched	parataxis
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	advcl
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 watching	mark
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 watching	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 watching	aux
21	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 see	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 watching	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pecked	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pecked	nsubj
25	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 scratched	cc
27	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pecked	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 steak	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 steak	det
30	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 scratched	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 steak	acl:relcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 edge	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 edge	det
35	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 shelf	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shelf	det
38	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 edge	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 last	punct
40	till	till	ADP	_	42 last	case
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 last	case
42	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pecked	conj
43	down	down	ADP	_	45 fell	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 fell	nsubj
45	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 last	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perch	participle	the sparrow		the shelf		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shelf=Location
2	have	gerund				first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	having			about sparrow; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	having not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	watch a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	anyone	sparrow			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	peck	past	sparrow				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	scratch	past	sparrow not said here			at a steak	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at steak=Patient
8	lie	past	a steak		the edge of the shelf		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon edge=Location
9	fall	past	shelf				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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