Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 102
In the forest there lives a unicorn that commits great damage, you must first catch him."
Who acts: forest, unicorn, you · What happens: live, commit, catch · To what, where: unicorn, great damage
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, unicorn, you), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 lives | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lives | advmod |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 catch | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 unicorn | det |
| 7 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 commits | nsubj |
| 9 | commits | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unicorn | acl:relcl |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 damage | amod |
| 11 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commits | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lives | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 catch | aux |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 catch | advmod |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 catch | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the forest | a unicorn | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme unicorn=Location | |||
| 2 | commit | present | a unicorn | great damage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | must | you | unicorn | first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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