Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 9
This advice pleased the lion, so he laid himself down quietly for the fox to make him fast to the horse.
Who acts: lion · What happens: lay down, make · To what, where: lion
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), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 advice | det |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lion | nsubj |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lion | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lion | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 laid | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laid | nsubj |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lion | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 laid | compound:prt |
| 12 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 laid | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 fox | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fox | det |
| 15 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 laid | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 make | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fast | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | lion | lion | for the fox; quietly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Result for fox=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | lion not said here | lion | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=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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