Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 110
For a while he watched it sinking in the deep clear water; then sprang up and danced for joy, and again fell upon his knees and thanked Heaven, with tears in his eyes, for its kindness in taking away his only plague, the ugly heavy stone.
Who acts: Meantime, side, kindness · What happens: watch, sink, sprang up, dance, fall, thank · To what, where: side, deep clear water, knees, Heaven, only plague
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, side, kindness), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watched | obj |
| 7 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 watched | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprang | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 sprang | advmod |
| 15 | sprang | sprang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 watched | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 sprang | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 danced | cc |
| 18 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sprang | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 danced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 fell | advmod |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 knees | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 knees | nmod:poss |
| 27 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fell | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thanked | cc |
| 29 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | conj |
| 30 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 thanked | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tears | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 tears | case |
| 33 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 thanked | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 tears | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 kindness | punct |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 kindness | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 40 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thanked | parataxis |
| 41 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 42 taking | mark |
| 42 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 kindness | acl |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 taking | advmod |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 plague | nmod:poss |
| 45 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 plague | amod |
| 46 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 taking | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 stone | punct |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 stone | det |
| 49 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 stone | amod |
| 50 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 stone | amod |
| 51 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 plague | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Meantime | side | while | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sink | gerund | side not said here | the deep clear water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sprang up | infinitive | Meantime not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dance | past | Meantime not said here | for joy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | Meantime not said here | Meantime's knees | again | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location | |||
| 6 | thank speech: thank | past | Meantime not said here | Heaven | with tears in Meantime's eyes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | |||
| 7 | take away | gerund | side's kindness not said here | Meantime's only plague and the ugly heavy stone | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plague=Theme | |||
| 8 | plague | Meantime | nom plague «state 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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