Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 109

Grethel shook her apron, and the pearls and precious stones rolled out upon the floor, and Hansel threw down one handful after the other out of his pocket.

Who acts: Grethel, Hansel · What happens: shake, roll out, throw down · To what, where: apron, pearls, floor, one handful, pocket

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, Hansel), 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 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 apron	nmod:poss
4	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rolled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rolled	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pearls	det
8	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rolled	nsubj:pass
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stones	cc
10	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stones	amod
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pearls	conj
12	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shook	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 rolled	compound:prt
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
19	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shook	parataxis
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 threw	compound:prt
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 handful	nummod
23	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obj
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 threw	obl
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 pocket	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pocket	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 pocket	nmod:poss
30	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	shake	past	Grethel	duck's apron			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent apron=Patient
2	roll out	participle · passive		the pearls and precious stones	the floor		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme upon floor=Trajectory
3	throw down	past	Hansel	one handful	Hansel's pocket	after the other	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme out pocket=Initial_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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