Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 20

When they had gone a little distance, Hansel stood still, and peeped back at the house; and this he repeated several times, till his father said, "Hansel, what are you peeping at, and why do you lag behind?

Who acts: pebbles, Hansel, this, father, you · What happens: go, stand, peep back, repeat, say, hansel · To what, where: little distance · 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 (pebbles, Hansel, this, father), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stood	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 distance	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 distance	amod
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
9	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	still	still	ADV	_	10 stood	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 peeped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 peeped	cc
14	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stood	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 peeped	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peeped	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 repeated	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 repeated	cc
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 repeated	nsubj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 repeated	nsubj
23	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stood	parataxis
24	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 times	amod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 repeated	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 repeated	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Hansel	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Hansel	punct
33	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 peeping	punct
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 peeping	obj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 peeping	aux
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 peeping	nsubj
38	peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 Hansel	advcl
39	at	at	ADP	_	38 peeping	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 lag	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 lag	cc
42	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	45 lag	advmod
43	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 lag	aux
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 lag	nsubj
45	lag	lag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stood	conj
46	behind	behind	ADV	_	45 lag	advmod
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	pebbles = pebble	a little distance			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
2	stand	past	Hansel		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	peep back	past	Hansel not said here			at the house	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme
4	repeat	past	this		time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	say speech: ask	past	Hansel's father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hansel in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
7	peep in a quote	present · progressive	you				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
8	lag behind in a quote	present · do-support	you			behind property	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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