Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 41
Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow.
Who acts: butcher · What happens: come by, drive · To what, where: pig, wheelbarrow
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 (butcher), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 butcher | det |
| 3 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 driving | punct |
| 8 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pig | det |
| 10 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 driving | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wheelbarrow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wheelbarrow | det |
| 13 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 driving | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come by | past | a butcher | luckily, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | a butcher not said here | a pig | a wheelbarrow | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme in wheelbarrow=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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