Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 94
When he came to the outskirts, he called ‘Iron Hans’ three times so loudly that it echoed through the trees.
Who acts: horse, stable · What happens: come, call, echo · To what, where: outskirts, Iron, trees · 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 (horse, stable), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 outskirts | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 outskirts | det |
| 6 | outskirts | outskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Iron | punct |
| 11 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obj |
| 12 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Iron | flat |
| 13 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 Iron | case |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 times | nummod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 loudly | advmod |
| 17 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 echoed | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 echoed | nsubj |
| 20 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | advcl |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 echoed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | horse | the outskirts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to outskirt=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | call | past | horse | Iron | time | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent iron=Recipient | ||
| 3 | echo | past | stable | the trees | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location |
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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