Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 11

There he sits as easy and happy as if he was at home, in the chair by his fireside; he trips against no stones, saves shoe-leather, and gets on he hardly knows how.’

Who acts: master · What happens: sit, be, trip, save, get, know · To what, where: chair, home, stones, shoe leather

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 (master), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sits	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 easy	case
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sits	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happy	cc
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 easy	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 home	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 home	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 home	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 home	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chair	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 chair	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chair	det
17	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 fireside	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fireside	nmod:poss
20	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chair	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 trips	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 trips	nsubj
23	trips	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	parataxis
24	against	against	ADP	_	26 stones	case
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 stones	det
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 trips	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saves	punct
28	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	parataxis
29	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leather	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 shoe	punct
31	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saves	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gets	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gets	cc
34	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
35	on	on	SCONJ	_	38 knows	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 knows	nsubj
37	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	38 knows	advmod
38	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 gets	advcl
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 knows	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	master		the chair by master's fireside; there	easy property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	master		home		tree rules
3	trip	present	master		no stones		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stone=Trajectory
4	save	present		shoe leather			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leather=Theme
5	get	present	master not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	know	present	master			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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