Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 104

So the duck came to them, and Hansel sat himself on, and bade his sister sit behind him. "

Who acts: duck, Hansel, bade · What happens: come, sit on, sit · To what, where: stile, Hansel

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 (duck, Hansel, bade), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 sat	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sit	cc
15	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	nsubj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	nsubj
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sit	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the duck		stile		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	sit on	past	Hansel	Hansel			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
3	sit	infinitive	bade			behind Hansel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location

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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