Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 17
However, the horseman got off, took the silver, helped Hans up, gave him the bridle into one hand and the whip into the other, and said, ‘When you want to go very fast, smack your lips loudly together, and cry “Jip!”’
Who acts: horseman, you · What happens: get off, take, help up, give, say, want · To what, where: silver, Hans, bridle, horseman, one hand, lips · 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 (horseman, you), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horseman | det |
| 4 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 silver | det |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 helped | punct |
| 12 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 13 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 helped | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 helped | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bridle | det |
| 19 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hand | nummod |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 whip | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 whip | det |
| 25 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hand | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 other | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gave | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 want | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 want | punct |
| 34 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 want | advmod |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 want | nsubj |
| 36 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 go | mark |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 want | xcomp |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 fast | advmod |
| 40 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 go | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 smack | punct |
| 42 | smack | smack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 go | conj |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 lips | nmod:poss |
| 44 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 smack | obj |
| 45 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 46 together | advmod |
| 46 | together | together | ADV | _ | 42 smack | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 cry | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 cry | cc |
| 49 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 50 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Jip | punct |
| 51 | Jip | Jip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 cry | obj |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 51 Jip | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Jip | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | the horseman | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the horseman not said here | the silver | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help up | past | the horseman not said here | Hans | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the horseman not said here | the bridle | horseman | one hand and the whip | into the other | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bridle=Theme | |
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the horseman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | smack | infinitive | you not said here | your lips | together property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | |||
| 9 | cry speech: express | infinitive | Jip | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jip=Topic |
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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