Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 26
One can walk along at one’s leisure behind that cow--keep good company, and have milk, butter, and cheese, every day, into the bargain.
Who acts: One · What happens: walk, keep, have · To what, where: one leisure, good company, milk
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 (One), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 walk | aux |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 walk | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 leisure | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 leisure | nummod |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 one | case |
| 8 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walk | obl |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 cow | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 cow | det |
| 11 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leisure | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 walk | advcl |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 company | amod |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 walk | conj |
| 19 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 butter | punct |
| 21 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 milk | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cheese | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cheese | cc |
| 24 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walk | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 day | punct |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cheese | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bargain | punct |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 bargain | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bargain | det |
| 31 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walk | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | can | One | one leisure behind that cow | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at leisure=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | One not said here | good company | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | One not said here | milk and butter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
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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