Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 106

This the good little bird did, and when both were happily arrived on the other side, and had gone a little way, they came to a well-known wood, which they knew the better every step they went, and at last they perceived their father's house.

Who acts: This, birds · What happens: do, arrive, go, come, know, perceive · To what, where: both, other side, little way, known wood, step, house

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 (This, birds), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 did	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 arrived	mark
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 arrived	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 arrived	aux:pass
12	happily	happily	ADV	_	13 arrived	advmod
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 gone	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 side	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 side	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 side	amod
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 did	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 way	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	amod
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	33 wood	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wood	det
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 known	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 well	punct
32	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 wood	amod
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 knew	obj
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wood	acl:relcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 better	det
39	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 knew	ccomp
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 step	det
41	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 better	nsubj
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 went	nsubj
43	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 step	acl:relcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 perceived	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 perceived	cc
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 last	case
47	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 perceived	obl
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 perceived	nsubj
49	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 came	conj
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 father	nmod:poss
51	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 house	nmod:poss
52	's	's	PART	_	51 father	case
53	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 perceived	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	This				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	past · passive		both	the other side	happily property	tree rules
3	go	past · perfect	This not said here	a little way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	birds = bird		a known wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
5	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	know	past	birds = bird	a known wood			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
7	go	past	birds = bird	every step not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
8	perceive	past	birds = bird	birds's father's house	last		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

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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