Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 10

But the fox managed to tie his legs together and bound all so hard and fast that with all his strength he could not set himself free.

Who acts: fox · What happens: manage, tie, bound, not set · To what, where: legs, that, fox

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 managed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 managed	nsubj
4	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tie	mark
6	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 managed	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tie	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 tie	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bound	cc
11	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 managed	conj
12	all	all	ADV	_	14 hard	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 hard	advmod
14	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 bound	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fast	cc
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 hard	conj
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 bound	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 strength	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 strength	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 strength	nmod:poss
21	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bound	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 set	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 set	advmod
25	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 strength	acl:relcl
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 set	obj
27	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 set	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	manage	past	the fox			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tie	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	fox's legs	together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	bound	present	the fox not said here	that	with fox's strength; hard property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=Theme
4	not set	could	fox	fox	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient himself=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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