Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 22
Away went the horse full gallop; and before Hans knew what he was about, he was thrown off, and lay on his back by the road-side.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: go, know, throw off, lay · To what, where: horse, Hans, back
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 (Hans), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gallop | amod |
| 6 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 10 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 knew | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thrown | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thrown | aux:pass |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 thrown | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thrown | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thrown | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thrown | aux:pass |
| 19 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 thrown | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lay | cc |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knew | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 back | nmod:poss |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 side | det |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 side | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 road | punct |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the horse | full gallop obl; away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Hans | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | throw off | past · passive | Hans | about property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | Hans not said here | Hans's back | by the road side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination |
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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