Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 120
The unicorn soon came towards him, and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would gore him with its horn without more ado.
Who acts: unicorn, dwelling · What happens: come, rush, gore · To what, where: blow
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, dwelling), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 unicorn | det |
| 2 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rushed | cc |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 10 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 9 rushed | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 tailor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tailor | det |
| 13 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gore | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 gore | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 gore | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gore | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 gore | aux |
| 19 | gore | gore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rushed | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gore | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 horn | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horn | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gore | obl |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 ado | case |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 ado | amod |
| 26 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gore | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the unicorn | towards blow; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | on the tailor; directly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tailor=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | gore a condition, not said to happen | would | dwelling | blow | with dwelling's horn; without more ado | tree rules |
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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