Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 28
That stupid horse, with his heavy hoofs, has been treading down my people without mercy!’
Who acts: stupid horse · What happens: tread down · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stupid horse), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 treading | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hoofs | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hoofs | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hoofs | amod |
| 8 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horse | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 horse | punct |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 treading | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 treading | aux |
| 12 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 treading | compound:prt |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 people | nmod:poss |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 treading | obj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 mercy | case |
| 17 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 treading | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 treading | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 treading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread down | present · perfect · progressive | that stupid horse | my people | without mercy | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location people=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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