Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 45
‘Alas, alas!’ said Hans, ‘who would have thought it?
Who acts: Hans · What happens: say, think · To what, where: flask · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | aux |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | would · perfect | flask | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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