Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 15
So he shot his arrow at the fox; but he missed it, and it set up its tail above its back and ran into the wood.
Who acts: son, arrow · What happens: shoot, miss, set up, run · To what, where: arrow, tail, back, wood
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, arrow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 shot | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shot | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 fox | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shot | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 missed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 missed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 missed | nsubj |
| 12 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 missed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tail | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obj |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ran | cc |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ran | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | son | son's arrow | at the fox | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at fox=Destination | |||
| 2 | miss | past | son | arrow | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | set up | past | arrow | arrow's tail | arrow's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme above back=Destination | |||
| 4 | run | past | arrow not said here | into the wood result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
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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