Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 1

Once upon a time there dwelt near a large wood a poor woodcutter, with his wife and two children by his former marriage, a little boy called Hansel, and a girl named Grethel.

Who acts: his · What happens: dwell, call, name, marry · To what, where: large wood, little boy, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (his), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 dwelt	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dwelt	advmod
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	10 wood	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wood	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wood	amod
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woodcutter	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woodcutter	amod
13	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wood	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wife	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 wife	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 children	cc
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 children	nummod
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wife	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 marriage	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 marriage	nmod:poss
23	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 marriage	amod
24	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 boy	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 boy	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boy	amod
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marriage	conj
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 boy	acl
30	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 named	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 named	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 girl	det
34	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 named	nsubj:pass
35	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dwelt	conj
36	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 named	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past			a large wood and a poor woodcutter; there	time	with his wife and two children; by his former marriage and a little boy; once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near wood=Location
2	call	participle		a little boy not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	name	participle · passive		a girl				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	marry		his = he					nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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