Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 97
The father got hold of the horse with his left hand, and with the right took his little son out of the ear.
Who acts: father · What happens: get, take, hold · To what, where: hold, little son, ear, horse
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 right | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 right | det |
| 16 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 son | amod |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 ear | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ear | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ear | det |
| 24 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the father | hold of the horse | with Father's left hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | past | the father not said here | Father's little son | the ear | with the right | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent son=Theme out ear=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | hold | the horse | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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