Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 106

He had not to hunt long, for soon the unicorn approached, and prepared to rush at him as if it would pierce him on the spot. "

Who acts: Tailor, unicorn, Seven · What happens: not hunt, approach, rush, pierce · To what, where: Tailor, spot

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 (Tailor, unicorn, Seven), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hunt	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hunt	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hunt	mark
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunt	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 approached	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 approached	mark
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 approached	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 unicorn	det
11	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 approached	nsubj
12	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunt	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 prepared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 prepared	cc
15	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunt	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 rush	mark
17	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 prepared	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rush	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 pierce	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 pierce	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pierce	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 pierce	aux
24	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 rush	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pierce	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 spot	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spot	det
28	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pierce	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hunt	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hunt	past	Tailor				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	approach	past	the unicorn			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	to-infinitive	Tailor not said here			at Tailor	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
4	pierce	would	Seven	Tailor	the spot		vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

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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