The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 114
“Gently, gently,” said he, “not so fast, my friend”; and standing still he waited till the beast was quite near, when he sprang lightly behind a tree; the unicorn ran with all its force against the tree, and rammed its horn so firmly into the trunk that it had no strength left to pull it out again, and was thus successfully captured.
Who acts: unicorn, horn · What happens: say, stand, wait, be, spring, run · To what, where: tree, horn, trunk, strength · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unicorn, horn), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 gently | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gently | punct |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gently | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gently | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fast | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fast | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fast | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 friend | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fast | appos |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 friend | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 waited | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 waited | cc |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 waited | csubj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 standing | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 waited | nsubj |
| 23 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 24 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 beast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beast | det |
| 26 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 near | obl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 near | cop |
| 28 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 29 near | advmod |
| 29 | near | near | ADV | _ | 23 waited | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sprang | punct |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 sprang | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sprang | nsubj |
| 33 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 waited | conj |
| 34 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 33 sprang | advmod |
| 35 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sprang | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 ran | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 unicorn | det |
| 40 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ran | nsubj |
| 41 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 waited | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 force | case |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 force | det:predet |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 force | nmod:poss |
| 45 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ran | obl |
| 46 | against | against | ADP | _ | 48 tree | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 tree | det |
| 48 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 force | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 rammed | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 rammed | cc |
| 51 | rammed | ram | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 52 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 horn | nmod:poss |
| 53 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 rammed | obj |
| 54 | so | so | ADV | _ | 55 firmly | advmod |
| 55 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 51 rammed | advmod |
| 56 | into | into | ADP | _ | 58 trunk | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 trunk | det |
| 58 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 rammed | obl |
| 59 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 61 had | mark |
| 60 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 had | nsubj |
| 61 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 rammed | advcl |
| 62 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 63 strength | det |
| 63 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 had | obj |
| 64 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 63 strength | acl |
| 65 | to | to | PART | _ | 66 pull | mark |
| 66 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 64 left | advcl |
| 67 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 pull | obj |
| 68 | out | out | ADP | _ | 66 pull | compound:prt |
| 69 | again | again | ADV | _ | 66 pull | advmod |
| 70 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 captured | punct |
| 71 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 75 captured | cc |
| 72 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 75 captured | aux:pass |
| 73 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 75 captured | advmod |
| 74 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 75 captured | advmod |
| 75 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 61 had | conj |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | unicorn | fast, gently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | past | unicorn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | till the beast | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spring | past | unicorn | a tree | lightly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind tree=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | run | past | the unicorn | with tree's force against the tree | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with force=Material | ||||
| 7 | ram | past | unicorn not said here | tree's horn | the trunk | firmly property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme into trunk=Destination | ||
| 8 | have | past | horn | no strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 9 | leave | participle | no strength not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | pull out | to-infinitive | strength | again | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | capture | past · passive | horn not said here | successfully, thus property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP» |
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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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