Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 10
Grethel wept bitterly, and said to Hansel, "What will become of us?" "
Who acts: Grethel · What happens: weep, say, hansel, become · 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 (Grethel), 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 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 2 wept | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 Hansel | mark |
| 8 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 become | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 become | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Hansel | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 become | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Grethel | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Grethel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hansel | to-infinitive | Grethel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | become in a quote | future | of us | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.
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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