Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 9
As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
Who acts: master, man · What happens: go, drag, come, trot · To what, where: one foot, sight
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 (master, man), 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 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 5 on | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragging | punct |
| 7 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 foot | nummod |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragging | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 dragging | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trotting | punct |
| 19 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 20 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 21 along | advmod |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 19 trotting | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 horse | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 horse | det |
| 24 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horse | amod |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trotting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | master | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drag | gerund | master not said here | one foot | after another | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | a man | sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 4 | trot | gerund | a man not said here | on a capital horse; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=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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