Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 37

The carter ran up and struck at her again with his hatchet; but away she flew, and the blow fell upon the second horse and killed him on the spot.

Who acts: carter, wretch, blow · What happens: run up, strike, fly, fall, kill · To what, where: harm, spot

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carter, wretch, blow), 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 carter	det
2	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 struck	cc
6	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 struck	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 struck	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hatchet	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hatchet	nmod:poss
12	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 struck	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 away	cc
15	away	away	ADV	_	17 flew	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 blow	det
21	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flew	conj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 horse	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horse	det
25	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 horse	amod
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 killed	cc
28	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flew	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 killed	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 spot	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spot	det
32	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 killed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	past	the carter					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strike	participle	the carter not said here			again	at wretch; with harm's hatchet	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at she=Patient with hatchet=Instrument
3	fly	past	wretch				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	the blow				upon the second horse	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon horse=Location
5	kill	past	wretch not said here	harm	the spot			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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