Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 23
His horse would have ran off, if a shepherd who was coming by, driving a cow, had not stopped it.
Who acts: horse, shepherd · What happens: have, run off, come by, drive, not stop · To what, where: cow, horse
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 (horse, shepherd), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stopped | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 stopped | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shepherd | det |
| 10 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 coming | aux |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 shepherd | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 coming | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 driving | punct |
| 16 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 coming | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cow | det |
| 18 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 driving | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shepherd | punct |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stopped | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 stopped | advmod |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 have | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stopped | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | Hans's horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run off | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come by | past · progressive | a shepherd | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drive | gerund | a shepherd not said here | a cow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not stop a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | a shepherd | horse | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
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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