Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 146
He went up to the youth, embraced him and said: ‘I am Iron Hans, and was by enchantment a wild man, but you have set me free; all the treasures which I possess, shall be your property.’
Who acts: king, I, Iron Hans, treasures · What happens: go up, embrace, say, be, set, possess · To what, where: king, Iron Hans, you, treasures, property · 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 (king, I, Iron Hans, treasures), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 youth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 embraced | punct |
| 8 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 embraced | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 embraced | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hans | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hans | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Hans | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Hans | cop |
| 16 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hans | compound |
| 17 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enchantment | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 enchantment | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 enchantment | cop |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 enchantment | case |
| 22 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Hans | appos |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enchantment | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 set | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 set | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 set | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 set | aux |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Hans | acl:relcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 set | obj |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 set | xcomp |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 property | punct |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 treasures | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 treasures | det |
| 36 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 property | nsubj |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 possess | obj |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 possess | nsubj |
| 39 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 treasures | punct |
| 41 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 property | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 property | cop |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 property | nmod:poss |
| 44 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 property | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 property | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | king | to the youth | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | king | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | Iron Hans | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | by enchantment | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | set | present · perfect · passive | Iron Hans not said here | you | free property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination | |||
| 7 | possess | present | I | all treasures | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is a | shall | all treasures | your property | tree rules |
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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