Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 21
After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he smacked his lips and cried ‘Jip!’
Who acts: horseman · What happens: think, like, go, smack, cry · To what, where: lips, Jip · 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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 like | aux |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 like | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 faster | obl |
| 13 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smacked | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 smacked | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 smacked | nsubj |
| 17 | smacked | smack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lips | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smacked | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cried | cc |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 smacked | conj |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Jip | punct |
| 23 | Jip | Jip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 Jip | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 smacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | horseman | time | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | should | horseman | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | horseman not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | smack | past | horseman | horseman's lips | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | horseman not said here | 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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