Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 49
‘You have let a hair fall into the well,’ said he.
Who acts: You, hair · What happens: let, fall, say · To what, where: You, well · 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 (You, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | aux |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hair | det |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present · perfect · passive | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | You not said here | into the well result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | hair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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