Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 151

Hans takes Gretel, ties her to a rope, leads her to the rack, and binds her fast.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: take, tie, lead, bind · To what, where: Gretel, rack

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	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ties	punct
5	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ties	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 rope	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rope	det
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ties	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leads	punct
11	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leads	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 rack	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rack	det
15	rack	rack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leads	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 binds	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 binds	cc
18	binds	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 binds	obj
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 binds	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	Hans		Gretel			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gretel=Destination
2	tie	present	Hans not said here	Gretel			to a rope	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to rope=Co-Patient
3	lead	present	Hans not said here	Gretel		the rack		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to rack=Destination
4	bind	present	Hans not said here	Gretel			fast property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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