Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 107

Then they began to run, and, bursting into the house, they fell into their father's arms.

Who acts: birds · What happens: begin, run, burst, fall · To what, where: house, arms

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bursting	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bursting	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bursting	punct
9	bursting	burst	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bursting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	20 arms	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arms	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 father	case
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	birds = bird		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	run	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burst	gerund	birds = bird not said here	the house			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	birds = bird			into birds's father's arms result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into arm=Result

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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