Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 28
The wild man turned back, took him up, set him on his shoulder, and went with hasty steps into the forest.
Who acts: wild man · What happens: turn back, take up, set, go · To what, where: boy, shoulder, forest
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 steps | case |
| 20 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 steps | amod |
| 21 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | the wild man | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take up | past | the wild man not said here | boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the wild man not said here | boy | boy's shoulder | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | go | past | the wild man not said here | the forest | with hasty steps | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location |
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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