Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 126
Hans takes the calf, puts it on his head, and the calf kicks his face.
Who acts: Hans, calf · What happens: take, put, kick · To what, where: calf, head, face
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, calf), 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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 calf | det |
| 4 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 puts | punct |
| 6 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 puts | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 puts | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kicks | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kicks | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 calf | det |
| 14 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kicks | nsubj |
| 15 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kicks | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Hans | the calf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument calf=Destination | ||||
| 2 | put | present | Hans not said here | calf | Hans's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination | |||
| 3 | kick | present | the calf | Hans's face | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
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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