Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 85
‘O’er hill and o’er dale So happy I roam, Work light and live well, All the world is my home; Then who so blythe, so merry as I?’
Who acts: I, world · What happens: roam, work, live, be · To what, where: light, home
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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 2 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hill | compound |
| 3 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dale | cc |
| 5 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dale | compound |
| 6 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hill | conj |
| 7 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 roam | nsubj |
| 10 | roam | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Work | punct |
| 12 | Work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 roam | conj |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Work | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 roam | conj |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 live | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 home | punct |
| 18 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 world | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 home | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 home | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 merry | punct |
| 25 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 who | advmod |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 merry | nsubj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 merry | advmod |
| 28 | blythe | blythe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 merry | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 merry | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 merry | advmod |
| 31 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happy | parataxis |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 I | case |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 merry | obl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | present | I | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | present | I not said here | light | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material | ||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | I not said here | well property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | all world | my home | tree rules |
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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