Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 12
Gretel presents Hans with a needle, Hans says: ‘Goodbye, Gretel.’
Who acts: Gretel, Hans · What happens: present, say · To what, where: Hans, Goodbye · 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 (Gretel, 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 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 presents | nsubj |
| 2 | presents | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 presents | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 needle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 needle | det |
| 6 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 presents | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 presents | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Goodbye | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Goodbye | punct |
| 12 | Goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gretel | punct |
| 14 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Goodbye | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gretel | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Goodbye | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | present | Gretel | Hans | with a needle | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent han=Recipient with needle=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Hans | Goodbye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
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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