Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 111

‘How happy am I!’ cried he; ‘nobody was ever so lucky as I.’ Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother’s house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

Who acts: I, Meantime, nobody, road · What happens: be, cry, get, walk, reach, tell · To what, where: house, mother · 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 (I, Meantime, nobody, road), 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	_	3 happy	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 happy	advmod
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cried	parataxis
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	cop
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 happy	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 happy	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 happy	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 lucky	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 lucky	punct
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 lucky	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lucky	cop
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 lucky	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 lucky	advmod
16	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cried	parataxis
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 I.	case
18	I.	i.	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lucky	obl
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 lucky	punct
20	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 got	advmod
21	up	up	ADP	_	23 got	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 heart	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 heart	det
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heart	compound
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 free	punct
29	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 got	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 troubles	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 troubles	det:predet
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 troubles	nmod:poss
33	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 free	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 walked	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 walked	cc
36	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
37	on	on	SCONJ	_	40 reached	mark
38	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 reached	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 reached	nsubj
40	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 walked	advcl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 mother	nmod:poss
42	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 house	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 mother	case
44	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 reached	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 told	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 told	cc
47	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 told	iobj
49	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	51 easy	advmod
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 easy	advmod
51	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 told	ccomp
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 road	det
53	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 easy	nsubj
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 luck	case
55	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 luck	amod
56	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 easy	obl
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 easy	cop
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I				happy property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Meantime					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	nobody			ever	as I.; lucky property	tree rules
4	get	past	Meantime			then	with a light heart	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	walk	past						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reach	past	Meantime	Meantime's mother's house				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past			mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
8	is	past	the road				to good luck; easy property	tree rules
9	trouble		Meantime					nom trouble «cognition 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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