Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 43
‘Nothing nothing,’ he answered, and held his finger behind his back, that the man might not see it.
Who acts: boy, man · What happens: answer, hold, not see · To what, where: nothing, finger, back
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 (boy, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nothing | amod |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 answered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 finger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obj |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 see | advmod |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 held | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | boy | nothing | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | boy not said here | boy's finger | boy's back | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme behind back=Location | |||
| 3 | not see | might | the man | back | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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