Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 11
When the work was done, the fox clapped the horse on the shoulder, and said, ‘Jip!
Who acts: fox · What happens: do, clap, say · To what, where: work, horse, shoulder, Jip · 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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 done | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 work | det |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 clapped | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clapped | nsubj |
| 9 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clapped | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 shoulder | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoulder | det |
| 14 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clapped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 clapped | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Jip | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Jip | punct |
| 20 | Jip | Jip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | clap | past | the fox | the horse | the shoulder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the fox not said here | Jip | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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