Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 55
The next man he met was a countryman carrying a fine white goose.
Who acts: Heaven, next man, countryman · What happens: meet, be, carry · To what, where: next man, countryman, fine white goose
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, next man, countryman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 countryman | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 countryman | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 countryman | det |
| 8 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 countryman | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 goose | det |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 goose | amod |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 goose | amod |
| 13 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 countryman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Heaven | the next man not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the next man | a countryman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a countryman not said here | a fine white goose | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=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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