Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 55
He took his pocket-handkerchief and tied it round his head, in order that the man might not see it.
Who acts: boy, man · What happens: take, tie, not see · To what, where: pocket handkerchief, handkerchief, order, head
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 handkerchief | compound | ||
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 pocket | punct |
| 6 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tied | cc |
| 8 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tied | obj |
| 10 | round | round | 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 tied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 order | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 order | case |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tied | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 order | acl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | boy | boy's pocket handkerchief | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | boy not said here | handkerchief | order | round boy's head | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 3 | not see | might | the man | head | 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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