Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 8

Then the dog snapped it up, and scrambled away with it into a corner, where he soon ate it all up.

Who acts: dog · What happens: snap up, scramble away, eat up · To what, where: shelf, corner

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 (dog), 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	4 snapped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snapped	nsubj
4	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snapped	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 snapped	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scrambled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 scrambled	cc
9	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 snapped	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 scrambled	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scrambled	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 corner	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 corner	det
15	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scrambled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ate	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 ate	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ate	nsubj
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 ate	advmod
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 corner	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ate	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 it	det
23	up	up	ADP	_	20 ate	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 snapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap up	past	the dog	shelf		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	scramble away	past	the dog not said here		a corner		with shelf; away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination
3	eat up	past	dog	shelf			soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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