Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 1

A farmer had a horse that had been an excellent faithful servant to him: but he was now grown too old to work; so the farmer would give him nothing more to eat, and said, ‘I want you no longer, so take yourself off out of my stable; I shall not take you back again until you are stronger than a lion.’

Who acts: farmer, horse, I, you · What happens: have, be, grow, work, give, eat · To what, where: horse, excellent faithful servant, farmer, nothing, you, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, horse, I, you), 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	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 servant	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 servant	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 servant	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 servant	det
10	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 servant	amod
11	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 servant	amod
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 servant	nmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 grown	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 grown	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grown	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grown	aux:pass
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 grown	advmod
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 old	advmod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grown	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 work	mark
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 old	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 give	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 farmer	det
28	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 give	obj
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 nothing	amod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 more	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 want	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 want	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 want	nsubj
42	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 said	ccomp
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 want	obj
44	no	no	ADV	_	45 longer	advmod
45	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 want	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 take	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 take	advmod
48	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	ccomp
49	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 take	obj
50	off	off	ADP	_	48 take	compound:prt
51	out	out	ADP	_	54 stable	case
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 stable	case
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 stable	nmod:poss
54	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 take	obl
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 take	punct
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 take	nsubj
57	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 take	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 take	advmod
59	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 take	obj
61	back	back	ADV	_	59 take	advmod
62	again	again	ADV	_	59 take	advmod
63	until	until	SCONJ	_	66 stronger	mark
64	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	66 stronger	nsubj
65	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 stronger	cop
66	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	59 take	advcl
67	than	than	ADP	_	69 lion	case
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 lion	det
69	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 stronger	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 take	punct
71	’	'	PUNCT	_	59 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a farmer	a horse					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	is a	past · perfect	a horse	a excellent faithful servant	farmer				tree rules
3	grow	past · passive		farmer			now	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	work	to-infinitive							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	would	the farmer	nothing	horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme
6	eat	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	want	present	I	you				long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
9	take off	infinitive		yourself		my stable			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme out stable=Initial_Location
10	not take back	shall	I		you		again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
11	is	present	you					than a lion; strong property	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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