Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 72
The Soldier now put on the coat, and dipped his hands into the pockets, to assure himself of the reality of the transaction.
What happens: put, dip, assure · To what, where: Soldier, coat, hands, pockets
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 coat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coat | det |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dipped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dipped | cc |
| 10 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dipped | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pockets | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pockets | det |
| 15 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dipped | obl | |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 assure | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 assure | mark |
| 18 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dipped | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 assure | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 reality | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reality | det |
| 22 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 assure | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 transaction | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 transaction | det |
| 25 | transaction | transaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reality | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle · passive | the Soldier | the coat | now | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on coat=Destination | |||
| 2 | dip | past | soldier's hands | the pockets | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme into pocket=Destination | ||||
| 3 | assure | to-infinitive | soldier | of the reality of the transaction | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient of reality=Topic |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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