Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 1

The mother of Hans said: ‘Whither away, Hans?’

Who acts: mother · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Hans	case
4	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 away	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 away	punct
8	Whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Hans	punct
11	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 away	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 Hans	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother of Hans					away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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