Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 16

‘Here he is, master,’ said he, ‘I have got the better of him’: and when the farmer saw his old servant, his heart relented, and he said.

Who acts: horse, master, I, farmer, heart · What happens: be, say, get, see, relent · To what, where: old servant · 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 (horse, master, I, farmer), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 master	punct
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 master	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 master	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 better	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 got	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 better	obl
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 saw	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 farmer	det
25	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 servant	nmod:poss
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 servant	amod
29	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 relented	punct
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heart	nmod:poss
32	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 relented	nsubj
33	relented	relent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saw	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saw	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	horse		here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	master			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	present · perfect	I		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	see	past	the farmer	horse's old servant		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer servant=Stimulus
5	relent	past	horse's heart			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	horse			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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