Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 122

The unicorn ran against the tree with all its strength, and stuck its horn so fast in the trunk that it had not the strength enough to draw it out again, and thus it was caught.

Who acts: unicorn, horn · What happens: run, stick, have, draw out, catch · To what, where: tree, horn, trunk, strength

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, horn), 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	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 strength	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 strength	det:predet
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 strength	nmod:poss
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stuck	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stuck	cc
13	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horn	nmod:poss
15	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuck	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 fast	advmod
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 stuck	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 trunk	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trunk	det
20	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuck	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stuck	conj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 strength	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 strength	det
26	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 strength	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 draw	mark
29	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 had	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 draw	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	29 draw	compound:prt
32	again	again	ADV	_	29 draw	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 caught	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 caught	cc
35	thus	thus	ADV	_	38 caught	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 caught	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 caught	aux:pass
38	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the unicorn		the tree		with tree's strength	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against tree=Trajectory
2	stick	past		tree's horn	the trunk		fast property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme in trunk=Destination
3	have	past	horn	the strength				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
4	draw out	to-infinitive	horn not said here	horn		again		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	catch	past · passive		horn			thus property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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