Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 62

Oh, yes, if another mounts behind quickly, and takes out the firearms which are in the holster, and with them shoots the horse dead, then the young King will be saved.

Who acts: another, firearms · What happens: mount, take out, be, shoot, save · To what, where: firearms, holster, horse, young King

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (another, firearms), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Oh	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mounts	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 mounts	mark
6	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	7 mounts	nsubj
7	mounts	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 yes	parataxis
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	9 quickly	advmod
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 mounts	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 takes	cc
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mounts	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 takes	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 firearms	det
15	firearms	firearm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 takes	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 holster	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 holster	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 holster	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 holster	det
20	holster	holster	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 firearms	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shoots	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shoots	cc
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 shoots	obl
25	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 takes	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shoots	obj
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shoots	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saved	punct
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 saved	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 King	det
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 King	amod
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 saved	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 saved	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 saved	aux:pass
36	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 shoots	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	present	another				quickly property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
2	take out	present	another not said here	the firearms				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firearm=Theme
3	is	present	the firearms		the holster			tree rules
4	shoot	present	another not said here	the horse			with firearms = firearm; dead property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with they=Instrument
5	save	future · passive		the young King		then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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