Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 12
And as soon as their parents had fallen asleep, he got up, put on his coat, and, unbarring the back door, slipped out.
Who acts: parents, Grethel · What happens: fall, get up, put, unbar, slip out · To what, where: coat, back door
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 (parents, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 got | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 fallen | mark |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fallen | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fallen | aux |
| 8 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 got | advcl |
| 9 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fallen | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fallen | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 got | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 coat | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 coat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 slipped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 slipped | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 unbarring | punct |
| 22 | unbarring | unbar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 slipped | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 door | compound |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 unbarring | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 unbarring | punct |
| 27 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 slipped | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | children's parents | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | Grethel | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | Grethel not said here | Grethel's coat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination | ||||
| 4 | unbar | gerund | the back door | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | slip out | past | Grethel not said here | tree rules |
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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