Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 111
‘That was ill done, Hans, you should have carried the bacon on your head.’
What happens: do, carry · To what, where: That, you
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hans | punct |
| 7 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 done | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 carried | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 carried | aux |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 done | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bacon | det |
| 14 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bacon | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | That | Hans obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | carry | should · perfect · passive | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bacon=Value |
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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