Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 7
The horse did as he was told, and the fox went straight to the lion who lived in a cave close by, and said to him, ‘A little way off lies a dead horse; come with me and you may make an excellent meal of his carcase.’
Who acts: horse, fox, lion, little way, you · What happens: do, tell, go, live, say, lie · To what, where: horse, cave, dead horse, excellent meal · 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, fox, lion, little way), 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 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | parataxis |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 lion | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 lion | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lion | det |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lion | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cave | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cave | det |
| 21 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cave | amod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 close | fixed |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 way | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 way | punct |
| 31 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 way | amod |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | ccomp |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 lies | case |
| 35 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 way | acl:relcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 horse | det |
| 37 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 horse | amod |
| 38 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lies | obj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 come | punct |
| 40 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | parataxis |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 me | case |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 come | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 make | cc |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 make | nsubj |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 make | aux |
| 46 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 come | conj |
| 47 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 meal | det |
| 48 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 meal | amod |
| 49 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 make | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 carcase | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 carcase | nmod:poss |
| 52 | carcase | carcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 meal | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the fox | to the lion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | live | past | the lion | a cave | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | lie | present | a little way not said here | a dead horse | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come | infinitive | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | make | may | you | a excellent meal of horse's carcase | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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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