Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 109
He gave the ill-disposed creature a blow with his paw, and he lay lifeless on the ground.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: give, dispose, lie · To what, where: disposed creature, ground
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), 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 | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 disposed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 6 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 creature | amod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blow | det |
| 9 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 paw | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 paw | nmod:poss |
| 12 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 17 | lifeless | lifeless | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | fellow | the disposed creature | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient blow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dispose | participle | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lie | past | fellow | the ground | lifeless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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