Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 14
Hansel stooped down, and put as many into his pocket as it would hold; and then going back, he said to Grethel, "Be comforted, dear sister, and sleep in peace; God will not forsake us."
Who acts: you, moon, Grethel, God · What happens: hansel, stoop down, put, hold, go back, say · To what, where: many, pocket, Grethel, dear sister, peace, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, moon, Grethel, God), 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 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Hansel | xcomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 stooped | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl | ||
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 hold | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hold | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hold | aux |
| 15 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 going | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 going | advmod |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Hansel | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 going | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hansel | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Grethel | case |
| 25 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 comforted | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 comforted | punct |
| 28 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 comforted | aux:pass |
| 29 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 said | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sister | punct |
| 31 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sister | amod |
| 32 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 comforted | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sleep | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sleep | cc |
| 35 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 29 comforted | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 peace | case |
| 37 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sleep | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 forsake | punct |
| 39 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 forsake | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 forsake | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 forsake | advmod |
| 42 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 43 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 forsake | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hansel | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stoop down | participle | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | you not said here | many | Grethel's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent many=Goal | |||
| 4 | hold | would | moon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go back | gerund | you not said here | then | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Grethel | Grethel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grethel=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | comfort in a quote | infinitive · passive | Grethel not said here | dear sister | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 8 | sleep in a quote | present | Grethel not said here | peace | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location | ||||
| 9 | not forsake in a quote | future | God | us | 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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