Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 86

Hans stood looking on for a while, and at last said, ‘You must be well off, master grinder! you seem so happy at your work.’

Who acts: Hans, you, your · What happens: stand, look on, say, well off, seem, work · To what, where: last, You · 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 (Hans, you, 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 looking	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 well	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 well	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 well	aux:pass
18	well	well	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 seem	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 well	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grinder	punct
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grinder	compound
22	grinder	grinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 well	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 seem	nsubj
25	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 happy	advmod
27	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seem	xcomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 work	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 work	nmod:poss
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 happy	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Hans					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look on	gerund	Hans not said here			while		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Hans not said here		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	well off	must · passive		You			master grinder obl	tree rules
5	seem	present	you				happy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	work		your					nom work «act intransitive»: 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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