Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 14
Hans takes the needle, sticks it into a hay-cart, and follows the cart home.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: take, stick, follow · To what, where: needle, hay cart, cart
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 | 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 needle | det |
| 4 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sticks | punct |
| 6 | sticks | stick | 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 sticks | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 cart | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cart | det |
| 10 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cart | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hay | punct |
| 12 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sticks | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 follows | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 follows | cc |
| 15 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cart | det |
| 17 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follows | obj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 follows | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Hans | the needle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stick | present | Hans not said here | needle | a hay cart | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into cart=Destination | |||
| 3 | follow | present | Hans not said here | the cart | home property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=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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