Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 47
Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler’s net with little bells and hung it round about her, and she still went on sleeping.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: hasten, bring, hang, go · To what, where: net, sleeping
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brought | cc |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fowler | det |
| 8 | fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 net | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 fowler | case |
| 10 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bells | case |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bells | amod |
| 13 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hung | cc |
| 15 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hung | obj |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 hung | advmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hung | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 sleeping | case |
| 26 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | Hans | then | home property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | bring | past | Hans not said here | a fowler's net | with little bells | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent net=Theme | |||
| 3 | hang | past | Hans not said here | net | about Hans; round property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme about she=Destination | |||
| 4 | go | past | Hans | sleeping | still | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sleeping=Location |
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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