Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 109
She inquired of the gardener where his boy was, but he smiled, and said: ‘He has just come home on his three-legged horse, and the others have been mocking him, and crying: “Here comes our hobblety jib back again!”
Who acts: daughter, king, others · What happens: inquire, smile, say, come, mock, cry · To what, where: king, hobblety jib · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter, king, others), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gardener | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardener | det |
| 5 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 inquired | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 was | advmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 boy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gardener | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smiled | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 smiled | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 smiled | nsubj |
| 13 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 inquired | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 smiled | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 19 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 horse | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 horse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 legged | nummod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 three | punct |
| 28 | legged | legged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 horse | amod |
| 29 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 mocking | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 mocking | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 others | det |
| 33 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 mocking | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 mocking | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 mocking | aux |
| 36 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 come | advcl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 mocking | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 crying | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 crying | cc |
| 40 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 inquired | advcl |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 comes | punct |
| 42 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 comes | punct |
| 43 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 comes | advmod |
| 44 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 inquired | parataxis |
| 45 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 jib | nmod:poss |
| 46 | hobblety | hobblety | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 jib | amod |
| 47 | jib | jib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 comes | obj |
| 48 | back | back | ADV | _ | 49 again | advmod |
| 49 | again | again | ADV | _ | 44 comes | advmod |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 44 comes | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | daughter | of the gardener | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of gardener=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | present | king | on king's legged horse; home property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Location | ||||
| 5 | mock | present · perfect · progressive | the others | king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | gerund | daughter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | come in a quote | present | our hobblety jib | here | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jib=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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