Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 108

The unicorn, rushing with all its force against the tree, stuck its horn so fast in the trunk that it could not pull it out again, and so it remained prisoner.

Who acts: unicorn, tree · What happens: rush, not pull out, remain · To what, where: trunk, prisoner

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 (unicorn, tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 unicorn	det
2	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remained	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rushing	punct
4	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 unicorn	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 force	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 force	det:predet
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 force	nmod:poss
8	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rushing	obl
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 force	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 horn	punct
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 horn	amod
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horn	nmod:poss
15	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 force	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 fast	advmod
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 horn	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 trunk	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trunk	det
20	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fast	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 pull	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pull	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pull	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 pull	advmod
25	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rushing	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pull	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	25 pull	compound:prt
28	again	again	ADV	_	25 pull	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remained	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 remained	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 remained	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 remained	nsubj
33	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remained	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rush	gerund	the unicorn not said here			with tree's force against the tree and tree's stuck horn	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with force=Eventuality
2	not pull out	could	tree	trunk	again		tree rules
3	remain	past	the unicorn	prisoner			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prisoner=Attribute

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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