Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 14
Then up he sprang, and moved off, dragging the lion behind him.
Who acts: fox · What happens: spring, move off, drag · To what, where: lion
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moved | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 moved | cc |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 moved | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dragging | punct |
| 10 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 moved | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lion | det |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dragging | obj |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dragging | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | fox | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move off | past | fox not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drag | gerund | fox not said here | the lion | behind fox | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=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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