Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 98
Hans takes the bacon, ties it to a rope, and drags it away behind him.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: take, tie, drag away · To what, where: bacon
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 bacon | det |
| 4 | bacon | bacon | 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ties | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 rope | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rope | det |
| 10 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ties | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drags | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drags | cc |
| 13 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drags | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 drags | advmod |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drags | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Hans | the bacon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie | present | Hans not said here | bacon | to a rope | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to rope=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | drag away | present | Hans not said here | bacon | behind Hans; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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