Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 75
Then he took the string in his hand, and drove off the pig by a side path; while Hans went on the way homewards free from care.
Who acts: Hark, Hans · What happens: take, drive off, go · To what, where: string, hand, pig, way homewards
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 (Hark, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 string | det |
| 5 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 pig | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pig | det |
| 14 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 path | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 path | det |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 path | compound |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 went | mark |
| 21 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 homewards | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 homewards | compound |
| 26 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 homewards | amod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 care | case |
| 29 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 free | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hark | the string | Hark's hand | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent string=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | drive off | past | Hark not said here | the pig | by a side path | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme by path=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | Hans | way homewards | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on homeward=Location |
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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