Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 122
On the second day Iron Hans equipped him as a white knight, and gave him a white horse.
Who acts: Iron · What happens: equip, give · To what, where: knight, white horse
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 (Iron), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 equipped | obl |
| 5 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 equipped | nsubj |
| 6 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Iron | flat |
| 7 | equipped | equip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 equipped | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 knight | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knight | amod |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 equipped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 equipped | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 horse | amod |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 equipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equip | past | Iron | knight | day | as a white knight | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | give | past | Iron not said here | a white horse | knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=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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