Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 40

The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he done the other two.

Who acts: carter, harm · What happens: be, look, care, strike, kill, do · To what, where: harm, sparrow, third horse, other two

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, harm), 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	4 mad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 fury	case
6	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looking	cc
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 looking	mark
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mad	parataxis
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 caring	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 caring	cc
15	caring	care	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 looking	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 caring	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 struck	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 struck	aux:pass
19	about	about	ADV	_	21 struck	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 about	punct
21	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 what	acl:relcl
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 struck	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 sparrow	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sparrow	det
25	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struck	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 killed	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 killed	cc
28	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	parataxis
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 horse	nmod:poss
30	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 horse	amod
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 killed	obj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 done	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 done	nsubj
34	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 killed	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 two	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 two	amod
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 done	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the carter				with fury; mad property	tree rules
2	look	gerund					about harm	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
3	care	gerund						tree rules
4	strike	past · passive		harm	the sparrow	again	about property	tree rules
5	kill	past		harm's third horse				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
6	do	past	harm	the other two				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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