Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 53

She handed him the dry bread. "

Who acts: Catherine · What happens: hand · To what, where: dry bread, I.

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 handed	nsubj
2	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 handed	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handed	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 handed	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	past	Catherine	the dry bread	I.				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bread=Theme

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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