Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 84
As he came to the next village, he saw a scissor-grinder with his wheel, working and singing,
Who acts: chap · What happens: come, see, work, sing · To what, where: next village, scissor grinder
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 (chap), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 village | amod |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 grinder | det |
| 12 | scissor | scissor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grinder | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 scissor | punct |
| 14 | grinder | grinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wheel | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wheel | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grinder | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 working | punct |
| 19 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 singing | cc |
| 21 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 working | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | chap | the next village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | chap | a scissor grinder | with chap's wheel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grinder=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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