Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 115
In the forest roams a unicorn which does great harm, and you must catch it first.’
Who acts: unicorn, you · What happens: roam, do, catch · To what, where: unicorn, forest, great harm, harm
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unicorn, you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roams | obl |
| 4 | roams | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 unicorn | det |
| 6 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roams | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 does | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unicorn | acl:relcl |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 harm | amod |
| 10 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 does | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 catch | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 catch | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 catch | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 catch | aux |
| 15 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 roams | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 catch | obj |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 catch | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 roams | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 roams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | present | a unicorn | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location unicorn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | a unicorn | great harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | catch | must | you | harm | first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/115/