Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 42
In the evening Iron Hans came back, looked at the boy, and said: ‘What has happened to the well?’
Who acts: Iron · What happens: come back, look, say, happen · 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Iron | flat |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 boy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 well | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 well | det |
| 23 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happened | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | Iron | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Iron not said here | at the boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Iron not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | present · perfect | to the well | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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