Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 162
‘I led her by the rope, tied her to the rack, and scattered some grass for her.’
Who acts: I · What happens: lead, tie, scatter · To what, where: Gretel, grass
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 rope | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tied | punct |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tied | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 rack | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rack | det |
| 13 | rack | rack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scattered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scattered | cc |
| 16 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 grass | det |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scattered | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 scattered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | I | Gretel | by the rope | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by rope=Destination | |||
| 2 | tie | past | I not said here | Gretel | to the rack | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to rack=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | scatter | past | I not said here | some grass | for Gretel | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grass=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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