Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 26
When it was open the wild man stepped out, gave him the golden ball, and hurried away.
Who acts: door, wild man · What happens: be, step out, give, hurry away · To what, where: golden ball, boy
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 (door, wild man), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 open | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stepped | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | nsubj |
| 8 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 stepped | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stepped | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ball | amod |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hurried | cc |
| 18 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stepped | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 hurried | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | door | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | step out | past | the wild man | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the wild man not said here | the golden ball | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ball=Theme | |||
| 4 | hurry away | past | the wild man not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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