Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 150
Gretel says to Hans: ‘I will go with you.’
Who acts: Gretel, I · What happens: say, go · 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, I), 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 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Hans | case |
| 4 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 says | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Gretel | to Hans | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to han=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | future | I | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
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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