Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 100
When he gets home, he has the rope in his hand, and there is no longer anything hanging on to it.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: get, have, be, hang on · To what, where: rope, hand
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 gets | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 has | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 gets | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rope | det |
| 9 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rope | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 is | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 has | conj |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 is | advmod |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 longer | obj |
| 20 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 anything | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hanging | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hanging | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Hans | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Hans | the rope | Hans's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | |||
| 3 | be | present | Hans not said here | there | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | hang on | gerund | rope | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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