Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 2
Hans answered: ‘To Gretel.’
Who acts: Hans · What happens: answer
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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Gretel | punct |
| 5 | To | to | ADP | _ | 6 Gretel | case |
| 6 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Gretel | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Gretel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Hans | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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