Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 87
‘Yes,’ said the other, ‘mine is a golden trade; a good grinder never puts his hand into his pocket without finding money in it--but where did you get that beautiful goose?’
Who acts: mine, good grinder, pocket, you · What happens: say, be, not put, find, get · To what, where: other, golden trade, hand, pocket, money, beautiful goose · 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 (mine, good grinder, pocket, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trade | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 trade | punct |
| 10 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trade | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 trade | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trade | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trade | amod |
| 14 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 puts | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 grinder | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grinder | amod |
| 18 | grinder | grinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 puts | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 puts | advmod |
| 20 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 get | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 puts | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pocket | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 25 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 puts | obl | ||
| 26 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 27 finding | mark |
| 27 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 pocket | acl |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 finding | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 finding | obl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 get | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 get | cc |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 get | advmod |
| 34 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 get | aux |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 get | nsubj |
| 36 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 37 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 goose | det |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 goose | amod |
| 39 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 get | obj |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 get | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the other | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | mine | a golden trade | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not put | present | a good grinder | grinder's hand | grinder's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 4 | find | gerund | grinder's pocket not said here | money | money | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic | |||
| 5 | get | past · do-support | you | that beautiful goose | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goose=Stimulus |
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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