Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 107
Meantime he began to be tired, and hungry too, for he had given away his last penny in his joy at getting the cow.
Who acts: Meantime · What happens: begin, be, give away, get, joy · To what, where: Meantime, joy, cow
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 (Meantime), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tired | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tired | cop |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 began | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hungry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hungry | cc |
| 9 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 began | parataxis |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 hungry | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 began | parataxis |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 given | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 penny | nmod:poss |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 penny | amod |
| 19 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 joy | nmod:poss |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 23 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 24 getting | mark |
| 24 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 given | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cow | det |
| 26 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Meantime | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Meantime not said here | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give away | past · perfect · passive | Meantime | Meantime's joy | away property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | get | gerund | the cow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | joy | Meantime | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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