Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 3

The poor horse was very melancholy, and wandered up and down in the wood, seeking some little shelter from the cold wind and rain.

Who acts: poor horse, melancholy · What happens: be, wander, seek · To what, where: melancholy, wood, little shelter, cold wind

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 (poor horse, melancholy), 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	3 horse	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melancholy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 melancholy	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 melancholy	advmod
6	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wandered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wandered	cc
9	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 melancholy	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 wandered	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 down	cc
12	down	down	ADV	_	10 up	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeking	punct
17	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 wandered	advcl
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 shelter	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shelter	amod
20	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeking	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 wind	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
23	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wind	amod
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeking	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rain	cc
26	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wind	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 melancholy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the poor horse	melancholy		tree rules
2	wander	past	melancholy not said here		the wood	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory
3	seek	gerund	melancholy not said here	some little shelter	the cold wind and rain	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=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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