Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 1

Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right--all that falls to them is so much gain--all their geese are swans--all their cards are trumps--toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.

Who acts: men, all, that, geese, cards · What happens: bear, do, try, come, fall, be · To what, where: men, much gain, swans, trumps, cards

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, all, that, geese), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 luck	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 luck	amod
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 comes	nsubj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 all	acl:relcl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 try	cc
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 do	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 try	xcomp
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 born	parataxis
17	right	right	ADV	_	16 comes	advmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 falls	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 falls	det:predet
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 falls	nsubj
21	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 gain	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 falls	obl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 gain	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gain	amod
27	gain	gain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	parataxis
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 swans	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 geese	det:predet
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 geese	nmod:poss
31	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 swans	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 swans	cop
33	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gain	appos
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 trumps	punct
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 cards	det:predet
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 cards	nmod:poss
37	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 trumps	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 trumps	cop
39	trumps	trump	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 swans	conj
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 toss	punct
41	toss	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 comes	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 toss	obj
43	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	44 way	det
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 toss	obl:unmarked
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 will	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 way	acl:relcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 will	punct
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 will	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 born	conj
50	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	49 will	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 puss	punct
52	like	like	ADP	_	54 puss	case
53	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 puss	amod
54	puss	puss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 alight	punct
56	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 puss	amod
57	upon	upon	ADP	_	59 legs	case
58	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 legs	nmod:poss
59	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 alight	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 move	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 move	cc
62	only	only	ADV	_	63 move	advmod
63	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 born	conj
64	on	on	ADP	_	63 move	compound:prt
65	so	so	ADV	_	66 much	advmod
66	much	much	ADV	_	68 faster	advmod
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 faster	det
68	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	63 move	advcl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		some men		to good luck	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	do	present	men = man				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	try	infinitive	men = man not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	men = man not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	present	all			right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	present	that		men = man		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
7	is a	present		much gain			tree rules
8	is a	present	men's geese	swans and trumps			tree rules
9	is a	present	men's cards	trumps			tree rules
10	toss	present	all not said here	cards = card		which way obl:unmarked	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
11	move on	infinitive					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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.

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