Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 77

A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet.

Who acts: horse, old fox · What happens: go, walk, meet, beseech, kill, cut off · To what, where: wood, horse, eyes, head

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 (horse, old 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 while	amod
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
4	after	after	ADV	_	3 while	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 while	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 walk	mark
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	xcomp
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl:unmarked
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 met	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 met	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fox	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fox	amod
19	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 met	nsubj
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 met	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 besought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 besought	cc
24	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 besought	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 tears	case
27	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 besought	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 besought	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 kill	mark
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 besought	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kill	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cut	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cut	cc
36	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 went	parataxis
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 cut	compound:prt
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cut	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 feet	cc
41	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 head	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	horse			while		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	to-infinitive	horse not said here		the wood	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory
3	meet	past	the old fox	horse				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	beseech	past	horse not said here	horse	horse's eyes		with tears	tree rules
5	kill	to-infinitive	horse not said here	horse				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	cut off	participle		horse's head and feet				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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