Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 29

But the willow-wren sent down the hornet, with orders to settle beneath the fox’s tail, and sting with all his might.

Who acts: willow wren · What happens: send down, settle · To what, where: hornet

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 (willow wren), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wren	det
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wren	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 willow	punct
5	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	9 hornet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hornet	det
9	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 orders	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 orders	case
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sent	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 settle	mark
14	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 orders	acl
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	19 tail	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fox	det
17	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tail	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 fox	case
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 settle	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sting	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sting	cc
22	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	parataxis
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 might	mark
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 might	det:predet
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 might	nmod:poss
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sting	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send down	participle	the willow wren	the hornet				with orders	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hornet=Theme
2	settle	to-infinitive	the willow wren not said here					beneath the fox's tail	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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