--- title: Hans took the stone, and went his way with a light heart: his eyes s… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Hans took the stone, and went his way with a light heart: his eyes sparkled for joy, and he said to himself, ‘Surely I must have been born in a lucky hour; everything I could want or wish for comes of itself. Who acts: Hans, everything. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, everything), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:3:105 # text = Hans took the stone, and went his way with a light heart: his eyes sparkled for joy, and he said to himself, ‘Surely I must have been born in a lucky hour; everything I could want or wish for comes of itself. 1 Hans han NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 sparkled sparkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Surely surely ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux _ _ 32 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 39 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 42 nsubj _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 conj _ _ 45 for for SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 ccomp _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Hans | the stone | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | Hans *not said here* | Hans's way | | | | with a light heart and Hans's eyes | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 3 | **sparkle** | participle | | Hans's eyes *not said here* | | | | for joy | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hans | | Hans | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 5 | **bear** | must · perfect · passive | | I | | | hour | surely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **want** | could | everything | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **wish** | infinitive | everything *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **come** | present | | | | | | of more | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of itself=Initial\_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. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/3/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/3/106/) - ↑ back to [Hans in Luck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/3/)