Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 105
Hans took the stone, and went his way with a light heart: his eyes sparkled for joy, and he said to himself, ‘Surely I must have been born in a lucky hour; everything I could want or wish for comes of itself.
Who acts: Hans, everything · What happens: take, go, sparkle, say, bear, want · To what, where: stone, way, eyes, Hans, I · 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 (Hans, everything), 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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | compound |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyes | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heart | conj |
| 17 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 eyes | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sparkled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 himself | case |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 born | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 born | punct |
| 28 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 33 born | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 born | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 born | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 born | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 born | aux:pass |
| 33 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 said | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 hour | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hour | det |
| 36 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hour | amod |
| 37 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 born | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 want | punct |
| 39 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 42 want | nsubj |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 want | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 want | aux |
| 42 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 wish | cc |
| 44 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 want | conj |
| 45 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 comes | mark |
| 46 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 wish | ccomp |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 itself | case |
| 48 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 46 comes | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hans | the stone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Hans not said here | Hans's way | with a light heart and Hans's eyes | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 3 | sparkle | participle | Hans's eyes not said here | for joy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | bear | must · perfect · passive | I | hour | surely property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 6 | want | could | everything | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | wish | infinitive | everything not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | come | present | of more | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of itself=Initial_Location |
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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