Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 30

When the fox felt the first string, he started so that he lifted one leg, from pain, but he bore it, and still kept his tail high in the air; at the second sting, he was forced to put it down for a moment; at the third, he could hold out no longer, screamed, and put his tail between his legs.

Who acts: fox · What happens: feel, start, lift, bear, keep, force · To what, where: first string, one leg, leg, tail, fox, second sting

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 (fox), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 felt	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 started	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 string	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 string	amod
7	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 started	nsubj
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 lifted	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lifted	nsubj
14	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 started	advcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 leg	nummod
16	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lifted	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pain	punct
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 pain	case
19	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lifted	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bore	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 bore	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bore	nsubj
23	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 started	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bore	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kept	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 kept	cc
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 kept	advmod
28	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bore	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kept	obj
31	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 kept	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 air	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 air	det
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 high	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 forced	punct
36	at	at	ADP	_	39 sting	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sting	det
38	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 sting	amod
39	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 forced	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sting	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 forced	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 forced	aux:pass
43	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 started	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 put	mark
45	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 forced	xcomp
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 put	obj
47	down	down	ADP	_	45 put	compound:prt
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 moment	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 moment	det
50	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 put	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 third	punct
52	at	at	ADP	_	54 third	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 third	det
54	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	43 forced	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 hold	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 hold	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 hold	aux
58	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 third	parataxis
59	out	out	ADP	_	58 hold	compound:prt
60	no	no	ADV	_	61 longer	advmod
61	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	58 hold	advmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 screamed	punct
63	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 hold	conj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 put	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 put	cc
66	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 started	conj
67	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 tail	nmod:poss
68	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 put	obj
69	between	between	ADP	_	71 legs	case
70	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 legs	nmod:poss
71	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 put	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the fox	the first string				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
2	start	past	fox					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	lift	past	fox	one leg				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
4	bear	past	fox	leg				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	keep	past	fox not said here	fox's tail		still	high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
6	force	past · passive		fox	the second sting			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	put down	to-infinitive	fox not said here	tail		moment		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
8	hold out	could	fox				long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	scream speech: express	participle	fox not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	put	past	fox not said here	fox's tail	fox's legs			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme between leg=Destination

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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