Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 8

The lion was greatly pleased, and set off immediately; and when they came to the horse, the fox said, ‘You will not be able to eat him comfortably here; I’ll tell you what--I will tie you fast to his tail, and then you can draw him to your den, and eat him at your leisure.’

Who acts: lion, justice, fox, You, I · What happens: be, set off, come, say, not be, eat · To what, where: fox, you, den, leisure · 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 (lion, justice, fox, You), 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 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pleased	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	8 set	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 horse	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fox	det
21	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
24	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	29 able	mark
25	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 able	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 able	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 eat	mark
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 eat	obj
33	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	34 here	advmod
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 eat	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 tell	nsubj
37	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	aux
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 tell	iobj
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 tell	obj
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 tie	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 tie	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 tie	aux
44	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 tell	conj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 tie	obj
46	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 tie	advmod
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 tail	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 tail	nmod:poss
49	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tie	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 draw	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 draw	cc
52	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 draw	advmod
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 draw	nsubj
54	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 draw	aux
55	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 tell	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 draw	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 den	case
58	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 den	nmod:poss
59	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 draw	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 eat	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 eat	cc
62	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	parataxis
63	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 eat	obj
64	at	at	ADP	_	66 leisure	case
65	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 leisure	nmod:poss
66	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 eat	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
68	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lion					greatly, pleased property	tree rules
2	set off	infinitive	the lion not said here					immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	justice					to the horse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to horse=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the fox						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not is	future	You					able property	tree rules
6	eat	to-infinitive	You not said here	fox		here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	future	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
8	tie	future	I	you				to fox's tail; fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to tail=Co-Patient
9	draw	can	you	fox		your den	then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to den=Destination
10	eat	infinitive		fox		your leisure			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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