Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 35
When he had rested himself he set off again, driving his cow towards his mother’s village.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: rest, set off, drive · To what, where: Hans, cow, village
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 | 4 rested | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rested | aux |
| 4 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 set | advcl |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 rested | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 driving | punct |
| 11 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 set | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driving | obj |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 village | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 village | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 mother | case |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · perfect | Hans | Hans | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set off | past | Hans | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | Hans not said here | Hans's cow | Hans's mother's village | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Theme towards village=Trajectory |
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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