Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 104
‘Take back your horse and your troops, and give me my three-legged horse again.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take back, give · To what, where: horse, legged horse, me
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Take | advmod |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 troops | cc |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 troops | nmod:poss |
| 8 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 horse | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 legged | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 three | punct |
| 16 | legged | legged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | imperative | you not said here | your horse and your troops | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | my legged horse | me | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=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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