Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 10

‘Ah!’ said Hans aloud, ‘what a fine thing it is to ride on horseback!

Who acts: thing · What happens: say, be · To what, where: horseback · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thing), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 said	ccomp
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	6 Hans	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ride	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ride	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ride	mark
17	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thing	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 horseback	case
19	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ride	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	thing			horseback		ride property	tree rules

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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