Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 15

The beast began to roar and bellow, till all the birds of the wood flew away for fright; but the horse let him sing on, and made his way quietly over the fields to his master’s house.

Who acts: beast, birds, horse · What happens: begin, roar, bellow, fly away, let, sing on · To what, where: beast, way, fields

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 (beast, birds, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beast	det
2	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 roar	mark
5	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bellow	cc
7	bellow	bellow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 roar	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flew	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 flew	mark
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 birds	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flew	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 birds	nmod
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 flew	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 fright	case
19	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flew	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horse	det
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	nsubj
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 sing	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 way	nmod:poss
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obj
33	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	30 made	advmod
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 fields	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fields	det
36	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 made	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	41 house	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 master	nmod:poss
39	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 house	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 master	case
41	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the beast				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	roar	to-infinitive	the beast not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bellow	infinitive	the beast not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly away	past	all birds of the wood			for fright; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let	infinitive	the horse	beast			tree rules
6	sing on speech: express	infinitive	beast not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	make	past		beast's way	the fields	to beast's master's house; quietly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product

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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