Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 24
But in reality Hansel was not looking at a cat; but every time he stopped, he dropped a pebble out of his pocket upon the path.
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: not look, stop, drop · To what, where: time, pebble, 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 looking | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 reality | case |
| 3 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 4 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 looking | advmod |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 cat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dropped | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 dropped | cc |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropped | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stopped | nsubj |
| 16 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dropped | nsubj |
| 19 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pebble | det |
| 21 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropped | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 pocket | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pocket | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 25 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropped | obl | ||
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 path | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 path | det |
| 28 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pocket | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · progressive | Hansel | at a cat; in reality | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in reality=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Hansel | every time not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector time=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | Hansel | a pebble | Hansel's pocket upon the path | time | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme out pocket=Destination |
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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