Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 56

The countryman stopped to ask what was o’clock; this led to further chat; and Hans told him all his luck, how he had so many good bargains, and how all the world went gay and smiling with him.

Who acts: countryman, this, Hans, world · What happens: stop, ask, be, lead, tell, have · To what, where: luck, countryman, many good bargains · 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 (countryman, this, Hans, world), 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	2 countryman	det
2	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ask	mark
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopped	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 o’clock	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 o’clock	cop
8	o’clock	o'clock	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ask	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 led	punct
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 led	nsubj
11	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 chat	case
13	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chat	amod
14	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
17	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 luck	det:predet
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 luck	nmod:poss
22	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 had	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 many	advmod
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bargains	amod
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bargains	amod
30	bargains	bargain	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 went	advmod
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 world	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
38	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 went	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 smiling	cc
40	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 went	advcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 smiling	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the countryman				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the countryman not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				o'clock property	tree rules
4	lead	past	this			to further chat	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to chat=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	past	Hans	countryman's luck	countryman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient luck=Topic
6	have	past	countryman	many good bargains			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Patient
7	go	past	all world			gay property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	smile	gerund	all world not said here			with countryman	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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