Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 46
His finger hurt him again and he passed it over his head, and then unhappily a hair fell down into the well.
Who acts: finger, boy, hair · What happens: hurt, pass, fall down · To what, where: boy, care, head, well
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 (finger, boy, hair), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 finger | nmod:poss |
| 2 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurt | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 passed | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 passed | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 unhappily | advmod |
| 16 | unhappily | unhappily | ADV | _ | 19 fell | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hair | det |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 fell | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 well | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 well | det |
| 23 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past | boy's finger | boy | again | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | |||
| 2 | pass | past | boy | care | boy's head | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Destination | |||
| 3 | fall down | past | a hair | into the well result; down, unhappily property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result |
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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