Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 165
Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves’ and sheep’s eyes, and threw them in Gretel’s face.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: go, cut out, throw · To what, where: eyes, stable, Hans, 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), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 stable | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stable | det |
| 5 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 calves | punct |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 calves | amod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cut | compound:prt |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 calves | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 calves | det |
| 11 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stable | conj |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eyes | cc |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 sheep | case |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 threw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 threw | cc |
| 19 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 threw | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 22 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Gretel | case |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 threw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hans | sheep's eyes | the stable and all cut calves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cut out | participle | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | throw | past | Hans not said here | Hans = han | Gretel's face | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in face=Destination |
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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