Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 6
And the master said, ‘You have been a faithful and good servant, Hans, so your pay shall be handsome.’
Who acts: master, You, pay, your · What happens: say, be, pay · To what, where: faithful servant · 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 (master, You, pay, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 servant | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 servant | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 servant | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 servant | det |
| 11 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 servant | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 good | cc |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 faithful | conj |
| 14 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hans | punct |
| 16 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 servant | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 handsome | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 handsome | advmod |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pay | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 handsome | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 handsome | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 handsome | cop |
| 23 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 servant | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | You | a faithful servant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | your pay | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pay | your | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=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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