---
title: After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he smacked his lips and cried ‘Jip!’ Who acts: horseman. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/3/21/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Hans in Luck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/3/) / 21

# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 21

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he smacked his lips and cried ‘Jip!’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** horseman · **What happens:** think, like, go, smack, cry · **To what, where:** lips, Jip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horseman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2591:3:21
# text = After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he smacked his lips and cried ‘Jip!’
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
13	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	smacked	smack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Jip	Jip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | horseman |  |  |  | time |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | should | horseman |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | horseman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smack** | past | horseman | horseman's lips |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | horseman *not said here* | Jip |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jip=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/3/20/)
- next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/3/22/)
- ↑ back to [Hans in Luck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/3/)