Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 24

No one knew that, so the fox said: ‘I have a fine long bushy tail, which almost looks like a plume of red feathers.

Who acts: one, fox, I, fine long bushy tail · What happens: know, say, have, look · To what, where: that, fine long bushy tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, fox, I, fine long bushy tail), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fox	det
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tail	det
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tail	amod
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tail	amod
17	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tail	amod
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looks	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 looks	nsubj
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 looks	advmod
22	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tail	acl:relcl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 plume	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 plume	det
25	plume	plume	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looks	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 feathers	case
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feathers	amod
28	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 plume	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	no one	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the fox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	a fine long bushy tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	look	present	a fine long bushy tail		like a plume of red feathers; almost property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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