Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 70
Hans takes the goat, ties its legs, and puts it in his pocket.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: take, tie, put · To what, where: goat, legs, pocket
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goat | det |
| 4 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ties | punct |
| 6 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 legs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ties | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 puts | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 puts | cc |
| 11 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 puts | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puts | obl | ||
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Hans | the goat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goat=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tie | present | Hans not said here | goat's legs | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | present | Hans not said here | goat | Hans's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=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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