Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 4

Presently a fox met him: ‘What’s the matter, my friend?’ said he, ‘why do you hang down your head and look so lonely and woe-begone?’

Who acts: fox, matter, horse · What happens: meet, say, hang down, look · To what, where: horse, head · 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, matter, 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 met	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ’s	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 ’s	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 ’s	nsubj
9	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 met	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 matter	det
11	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 friend	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 matter	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 friend	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 friend	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ’s	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hang	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 he	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 hang	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 hang	advmod
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hang	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 hang	nsubj
24	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 hang	compound:prt
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hang	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 look	cc
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hang	conj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 lonely	advmod
31	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 look	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 begone	cc
33	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 begone	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 woe	punct
35	begone	begone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lonely	conj
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	a fox	horse	presently property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the matter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hang down	present · do-support	horse	your head		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	look	infinitive	horse not said here		lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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