Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 52

‘Heaven reward you for your kindness and self-denial!’ said Hans, as he gave the butcher the cow; and taking the pig off the wheel-barrow, drove it away, holding it by the string that was tied to its leg.

Who acts: Heaven, Hans · What happens: reward, say, give, take, drive away, hold · To what, where: you, butcher, pig, wheel barrow, string · 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 (Heaven, 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	_	3 reward	punct
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reward	nsubj
3	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 reward	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 kindness	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kindness	nmod:poss
7	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reward	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 denial	cc
9	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 denial	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 self	punct
11	denial	denial	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kindness	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 reward	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 reward	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 gave	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 butcher	det
21	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cow	det
23	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 taking	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taking	cc
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pig	det
28	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
29	off	off	ADP	_	33 barrow	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 barrow	det
31	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 barrow	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 wheel	punct
33	barrow	barrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drove	punct
35	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taking	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 drove	obj
37	away	away	ADV	_	35 drove	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 holding	punct
39	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 taking	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 holding	obj
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 string	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 string	det
43	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 holding	obl
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 tied	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 tied	aux:pass
46	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 string	acl:relcl
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 leg	case
48	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 leg	nmod:poss
49	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 tied	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reward	infinitive	Heaven	you		for your kindness and self denial	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for kindness=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	Hans				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	past	Hans	the butcher			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent butcher=Recipient cow=Theme
4	take	gerund	Hans not said here	the pig	the wheel barrow		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pig=Theme off barrow=Initial_Location
5	drive away	past	Hans not said here	pig		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
6	hold	gerund	Hans not said here	pig		by the string	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by string=Location
7	tie	past · passive		the string		to pig's leg	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to leg=Co-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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