Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 8
Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off on his road homewards.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: take out, put, throw, jog off · To what, where: pocket handkerchief, piece, silver, shoulder, road 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 (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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 5 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handkerchief | compound | ||
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 pocket | punct |
| 7 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silver | case |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threw | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 shoulder | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 jogged | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jogged | cc |
| 24 | jogged | jog | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 jogged | compound:prt |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 homewards | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 homewards | nmod:poss |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 homewards | compound |
| 29 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 jogged | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | Hans | master's pocket handkerchief | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Hans not said here | the piece of silver | silver | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal | |||
| 3 | throw | past | Hans not said here | piece | master's shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | jog off | past | Hans not said here | master's road homewards | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on homeward=Trajectory |
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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