Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 82

One morning, when he himself had gone out to bring in the horses, he found one of them standing with its forefeet on a wolf it had killed, but the savage animal had torn and lacerated the brave horse's legs.

Who acts: man, wolf · What happens: go out, bring, find, stand, kill, tear · To what, where: one, lifetime, savage animal, legs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wolf), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 he	nmod:unmarked
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 gone	compound:prt
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bring	mark
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 horses	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horses	det
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bring	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	parataxis
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 found	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 found	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 forefeet	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 forefeet	nmod:poss
24	forefeet	forefeet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 wolf	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wolf	det
27	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forefeet	nmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 killed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 killed	aux
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 wolf	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 torn	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 torn	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 animal	det
34	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 animal	amod
35	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 torn	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 torn	aux
37	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gone	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lacerated	cc
39	lacerated	lacerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 torn	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 horse	det
41	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 horse	amod
42	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 legs	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 horse	case
44	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lacerated	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past · perfect	man		morning		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	to-infinitive	man not said here			in the horses	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	man	one of horses			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4	stand	gerund	man not said here			with lifetime's forefeet on a wolf	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kill	past · perfect · passive	a wolf not said here	lifetime			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	tear	past · perfect · passive		the savage animal			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
7	lacerate	past		the brave horse's legs			tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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