Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 5

In Hansel and Gretel, an old fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, Hansel drops breadcrumbs to find the way home, but the birds eat them.

Who acts: Hansel, birds · What happens: collect, drop, find, eat · To what, where: old fairy tale, breadcrumbs, Hansel, way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Hansel	case
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 drops	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Gretel	cc
4	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hansel	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hansel	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tale	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tale	amod
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tale	compound
9	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hansel	appos
10	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tale	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 Brothers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Brothers	det
13	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 collected	obl:agent
14	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Brothers	compound
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hansel	punct
16	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 drops	nsubj
17	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	breadcrumbs	breadcrumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 drops	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 drops	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 find	obj
23	home	home	ADV	_	20 find	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eat	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 eat	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 birds	det
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eat	nsubj
28	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 drops	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 drops	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect	participle		a old fairy tale not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	drop	present	Hansel	breadcrumbs	Hansel and Gretel		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent breadcrumb=Theme in hansel=Destination
3	find	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here	the way		home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	eat	present	the birds	breadcrumbs = breadcrumb			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.4.

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