Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 110
‘I tied it to a rope, brought it home, dogs took it.’
Who acts: I, dogs · What happens: tie, bring, take · To what, where: bacon
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 (I, dogs), 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 | _ | 3 tied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 rope | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | I | bacon | to a rope | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to rope=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | bring | past | I not said here | bacon | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | dogs | bacon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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