Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 34
When he came to an inn, he halted, ate up all his bread, and gave away his last penny for a glass of beer.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: come, halt, eat up, give away · To what, where: inn, bread, last penny
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 halted | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 inn | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 inn | det |
| 6 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 halted | nsubj |
| 9 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 halted | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 ate | compound:prt |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 bread | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bread | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ate | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 halted | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 penny | nmod:poss |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 penny | amod |
| 22 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 glass | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 glass | det |
| 25 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 beer | case |
| 27 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 glass | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Hans | a inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | halt | past | Hans | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat up | past | Hans not said here | Hans's bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give away | past | Hans not said here | Hans's last penny | for a glass of beer | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent penny=Theme |
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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