Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 135
‘Yes,’ answered he, ‘and here the apples are,’ and he took them out of his pocket, and returned them to the king.
Who acts: apples, king · What happens: answer, be, take, return · To what, where: king, colours, pocket · 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 (apples, king), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 here | cc |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 apples | det |
| 12 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 here | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl | ||
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 returned | cc |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 returned | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 king | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the apples | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | king | colours = colour | king's pocket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | return | past | king not said here | colours = colour | the king | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to king=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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