--- title: The beast began to roar and bellow, till all the birds of the wood f… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The beast began to roar and bellow, till all the birds of the wood flew away for fright; but the horse let him sing on, and made his way quietly over the fields to his master’s house. Who acts: beast, birds, horse. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/45/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Fox and the Horse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/45/) / 15 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 15 The beast began to roar and bellow, till all the birds of the wood flew away for fright; but the horse let him sing on, and made his way quietly over the fields to his master’s house. **Who acts:** beast, birds, horse · **What happens:** begin, roar, bellow, fly away, let, sing on · **To what, where:** beast, way, fields 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 (beast, birds, horse), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:45:15 # text = The beast began to roar and bellow, till all the birds of the wood flew away for fright; but the horse let him sing on, and made his way quietly over the fields to his master’s house. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 roar roar VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 bellow bellow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 till till SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 on on ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’s 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the beast | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **roar** | to-infinitive | the beast *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bellow** | infinitive | the beast *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fly away** | past | all birds of the wood | | | | | for fright; away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | the horse | beast | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sing on** *speech: express* | infinitive | beast *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **make** | past | | beast's way | | the fields | | to beast's master's house; quietly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/45/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/45/16/) - ↑ back to [The Fox and the Horse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/45/)